Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Michael Ugwueke rose from war-torn Nigeria to become Methodist LeBonheur’s next CEO

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… a 2001 decision to make academic – or teaching – hospitals of Methodist University and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital through its partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


$5.2M study in Memphis will test texting, coaching to control diabetes

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A medical study of how text messaging and health coaching may help African Americans with uncontrolled diabetes will be launched in Memphis with a $5.2 million research award to a University of Tennessee Health Science Center researcher … Dr. Jim Bailey, director of the Center for Health System Improvement and professor of internal and preventive… Read More


Haslam budget plan includes new $39 million dentistry building at UT Health Science Center

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Gov. Bill Haslam’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal unveiled Monday night includes $39 million for a new College of Dentistry building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and to renovate existing dentistry school facilities.


Planners map ways to spark life in Medical Center, Edge District

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Many different signs of various styles, colors and sizes greet visitors who drive through the Memphis Medical Center along Union: Methodist University Hospital, Methodist Healthcare, Southern College of Optometry, Church Health Center, Baptist College of Health Sciences, an orange “UT,” UT-Baptist Research Park, and University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


February dental clinic promises free care, long lines

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In the Memphis area, those places include the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry …


West Cancer Center debuts in Germantown, plans another location in Midtown

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With a partnership formed in 2012 by The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the West Cancer Center links cancer treatment, clinical trials, education and research together under the same roof.


Mid-South Memories: Nov. 16, 1979

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Dave Darnell/The Commercial Appeal files Dr. William G. Andrade (right), director of the Emergency Services Dept. at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, discusses new emergency room ideas to be implemented at the hospital with (from left) Francis X. Maguire, senior vice president of Corporate Communications at Federal Express (now FedEx); Dr. John Griffith, Medical Director at… Read More


Group buying up land in Edge district

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Investments in the Medical District are planned by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, but many blocks remain unsightly, Prosterman said.