Medicare penalties that withhold dollars from hospitals have helped lower infections, but haven’t significantly lowered injuries from falls or bedsores, a University of Tennessee Health Science Center researcher has found.
The U.S. Army has awarded a research grant of nearly $1 million to a University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor to explore the use of new drugs for treating injured eyes.
The dean of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine — Chattanooga and senior vice president of Erlanger Health System, Dr. David Seaberg, is stepping down from the joint positions once a replacement for him is found, officials announced Friday. . . The executive dean of the Memphis-based College of Medicine at the University of… Read More
A University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor and physician in Memphis, Dr. Edward Chaum, and investment by Memphis-based MB Venture Partners LLC, helped found Hubble Telemedical in December 2011.
The new, nonprofit public charity called the UT/West Institute for Cancer Research already has collected its first sizable donation, $2.5 million through the Memphis-based Plough Foundation.
The West Cancer Center on Thursday unveiled a new nonprofit charity to raise funds for cancer research in Memphis and accepted a large initial donation — $2.5 million from the Memphis-based Plough Foundation . . . The West Cancer Center is a partnership of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, The West Clinic and Methodist… Read More
“Our strategy isn’t to dilute anything that we do here in Memphis at all,’’ he said. “As a matter of fact, we see this as a wonderful opportunity to increase our complement (of new students) because now we’re in another arena where we can play.”
Maybe we are just paranoid, but news that the University of Tennessee plans to establish a health science center in Nashville should worry Memphians.
