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.
… the commission … approved a $12.6 million expansion for a new 59,000-square-foot multidisciplinary simulation center at UTHSC, raising the total project cost to $36.7 million. The center, which replicates a real-life patient care setting, will be used by the colleges of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing and allied health. The center will be housed in the Humphreys General Education… Read More
On Wednesday, members of the Student National Medical Association at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will stage a white-coat die-in at 2 p.m. on campus. The local student chapter is joining students at many other medical schools across the country participating in similar die-ins Wednesday, which is Human Rights Day.
When it comes to what employees say, 50 establishments stand out as the top workplaces in Greater Memphis.
The Germantown Weekly in The Commercial Appeal has photo – page 11 – of College of Medicine and College of Pharmacy “Tar Wars” anti-smoking effort with children:
