International nurses travel to Memphis to learn about sickle cell
The University of Tennessee College of Nursing is hosting a sickle cell disease boot camp through Friday, Nov. 3, in which nurses from around the world will learn about the illness.
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UTHSC student lounge opens at Regional One Health
Regional One Health now has a dedicated space for students and residents from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. This comes as Shelby County’s public hospital and UTHSC inch closer to a partnership that would establish Regional One as an academic medical center affiliated with the university.
Campbell Clinic’s chief of staff to lead ALSAC board
Dr. Frederick Azar, Campbell Clinic’s chief of staff, has been elected to lead the board of directors at ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Azar is a professor and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program in the University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Biomedical Engineering.
After launch two years ago, UTHSC expanding its nurse-midwife program
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing is working to increase the number of nurse-midwives in the Delta region, where maternal mortality rates are high and maternity care is scarce.
Critical care is focus of expansion at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is in the midst of an expansion to bolster critical care for its most fragile patients, from the tiniest preemies to children who need life-saving heart surgeries. “If you look at where we’re seeing increased volume in need, it’s in that critical-care complex, so that’s why the hospital made the decision… Read More
Le Bonheur program draws cardiologists across the US to Memphis
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is attracting pediatric cardiologists and heart surgeons from across the United States to join the growing team at its Heart Institute. This past summer, Dr. David Nelson relocated to Memphis from Houston. He left Texas Children’s Hospital to serve as director of the pediatric cardiac critical care program and cardiovascular intensive… Read More
Stressed? That’s natural, and at least somewhat treatable, expert says
Now, as autumn creeps toward winter and the time change gifts us with less daylight, our minds and bodies begin to undergo a shift, says Dr. Ferrell Varner, an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center psychiatry department.
Grit, gravel help, but Ride 2 Rosemary paved with saltier stuff
Dwayne Accardo, an associate professor in the college of nursing at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and head of the nurse anesthesiology program, is riding for his third straight year, a pilgrimage he struggles to sum up and can’t imagine missing.