Publisher: Memphis Medical News


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.


Researcher Optimistic About Prostate Cancer Study

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The Department of Defense awarded $562,500 last September to Dr. Subhash Chauhan, PhD, a professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, to research new therapies for advanced-stage prostate cancer.


Arrival of New ED Drugs Helps Ease Doctor-Patient Conversation

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“Men are much more open about talking about erectile dysfunction than they were 15 years ago, 10 years ago,” said Robert W. Wake, MD, professor and chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and residency program director.


PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: Kenneth Ennis, MD

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He has a faculty appointment in the department of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and has worked with the UT Medical Group.


The Man Behind UTHSC’s Renovation: Kennard Brown overseeing current $250-million project

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“Dr. Brown served as the primary architect of the UTHSC master plan,” said Steve Schwab, MD, chancellor of the health science center. “The plan was drafted by a third-party consultant (Perkins + Will) after extensive consultation with Dr. Brown and members of the Chancellor’s Cabinet and the deans. It was vetted with faculty, staff and… Read More


Dr. Fabian Discusses the Necessity of Surgery

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“It’s not so much the chronologic age as it is the physiologic age,” says Timothy Fabian, MD, the Harwell Wilson Alumni Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery at UTHSC. “You can have some 50- or 60-year-olds who are going to do worse than some 90-year-olds because they haven’t taken care of themselves. They might… Read More


UTHSC Participates in Community Health Fair

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… with the nurse practitioners from UTHSC School of Nursing, ninety preschool physicals were performed.