Publisher: Memphis Medical News


Hill Points Out Need for More Geriatric Psychiatrists

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After some 22 years in private practice, including 18 with Memphis Psychiatry Group, Hill now is teaching full-time at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), where he did his internship and where he has maintained an affiliation throughout his career. He is one of a small number of geriatric psychiatrists in the Memphis… Read More


Frederick Boop Continues to Unravel Secrets in a Three-Pound Universe

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Boop is on staff at the Semmes Murphey Clinic PC, a professor and chair of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.


R. Lebron Cooper Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology at UTHSC

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Lebron Cooper, MD, has been named chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at UTHSC.


UTHSC Announces Six Grant Awards Totaling $402,000

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The UT Institute for Research, Innovation, Synergy and Health Equity at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has announced the latest round of grant recipients from its Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTCS) Program.


UTHSC Announces Six Grant Awards Totaling $402,000

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The UT Institute for Research, Innovation, Synergy and Health Equity at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has announced the latest round of grant recipients from its Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTCS) Program. Six UTHSC researchers were chosen from a field of 28 submissions.


Institutions Join Fight Against Childhood Obesity

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… the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital opened a Healthy Lifestyles Clinic as part of their joint Pediatric Obesity Program under the direction of Joan Han, MD, a Harvard-educated endocrinologist and former U.S. Public Health Service officer.


Institutions Join Fight Against Childhood Obesity

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Last October, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital opened a Healthy Lifestyles Clinic as part of their joint Pediatric Obesity Program under the direction of Joan Han, MD, a Harvard-educated endocrinologist and former U.S. Public Health Service officer.


UTHSC’s New Arrival Something of a Rarity

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The long road home took Teresa Wright, MD, to the Northeast, then the Midwest and then the Southwest, but 31 years after she left Memphis, she made it back. Wright left Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston this spring and joined the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) as associate professor of dermatology and pediatrics.