In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More
On a recent Thursday evening, a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) picked up a knife and slowly, carefully, began to cut. This student, Hanson Cowen, was slicing an onion in a class that is part of the school’s culinary medicine program.
One day in August, Dr. Peter Buckley decided to explore Memphis. Already, he had been to Graceland. He had seen Beale Street, the Peabody, and Sun Studio. Now, the newest chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) wanted to visit places that weren’t necessarily tourist staples. This is the story of that serendipity — and… Read More
“Sabizabulin” sounds like an incantation. But this is no magic spell. Instead, it’s a drug used to treat COVID-19 patients at high risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and death. It was designed and tested by Wei Li, Ph.D. and Duane D. Miller, Ph.D., both of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee… Read More
One of the scariest things about COVID-19 was the vast amount of information out there — much of it inaccurate. Dr. Shirin Mazumder, an infectious diseases physician at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, set the record straight. In 2021, she started delivering reports weekly on WMC Action News 5, updating viewers on Centers for Disease Control (CDC)… Read More
In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More
In 2020, MBJ’s Health Care Heroes focused on those doctors, scientists, health professionals, and administrators who steered us through COVID-19. In 2021 and again this year, we have broadened the scope to include all of those who take care of our minds and bodies. We will be rolling out one profile a week through the… Read More
In FY 2022, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) earned a record $132.9 million in grant and contract awards, marking the sixth straight year it had seen an increase. Whether the institution can extend the streak in FY 2023 remains to be seen; it’s less than three months into its new fiscal year. But so… Read More
