Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


Making Memphis a great medical center

The Commercial Appeal

If you drive Downtown you may have noticed the new UT logos on Methodist Hospital and the continual construction on UTHSC’s 4,000-student campus. It’s likely the largest building boom ever for the school — 15 buildings have been renovated, built or are planned over the next few years, including a new College of Medicine.


UT pulls $20M permit for simulation center

The Commercial Appeal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, pressing forward with plans for its new Multidisciplinary Simulation Education Building, has pulled a construction permit. The permit for the building at 26 S. Dunlap values the construction at $20 million.


UT Health Science Center graduates new doctors, including recent cancer survivor

The Commercial Appeal

The Bristol, Tennessee, graduate would have to endure the fog, fatigue and pain of chemotherapy for six months during an academic year notorious for its rigor.


UTHSC wants proposals for replacing a boarded-up high-rise eyesore in the Medical District

The Commercial Appeal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is asking potential developers for proposals to turn the old 19-story Medical Center Towers and parking garage at the edge of its Memphis campus from a boarded-up eyesore into a new hotel and conference center.


UTHSC Designated ‘VETS’ Campus

The Commercial Appeal

The Memphis-based University of Tennessee Health Science Center today marks its new status as a “VETS Campus” that will smooth the transition for military veterans into higher education. UTHSC officials, as well as others from the Tennessee Department of Veterans Services and the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, which oversees the new VETS stamp of approval,… Read More


Louis Britt, Memphis transplant pioneer, dies at 84

The Commercial Appeal

The founder and president of the Mid-South Transplant Foundation Inc., Dr. Britt was also a driving force behind the University of Tennessee Health Science Center performing liver transplants beginning in 1982.


Starting the School Year

The Commercial Appeal

A consistent bedtime routine is key to helping your child have a less-stressful start to the school year, according to Dr. Valerie Arnold, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at UTHSC.


Guest column: UTHSC hard at work to be the College of Medicine for Memphis

The Commercial Appeal

Memphis and Shelby County face unique health care challenges — high rates of prematurity, cancer and obesity, and related conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.