Publisher: The Commercial Appeal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will graduate 698 new health care professionals at not one, but six ceremonies beginning Friday and ending May 29, officials said.

A total of more than $4.6 million in new grants for research for scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will involve the weed killer Paraquat, rapid eye movement sleep and a disease that causes an unusual kind of internal tumors.

The chairman of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics has won a $300,000 award to support glaucoma research, the Memphis university announced.

Panelists include: Dr. Brandon Baughman, Semmes-Murphey Clinic neuropsychologist and neurology assistant professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Dr. Frederick Boop, Semmes-Murphey neurosurgeon, chairman of neurosurgery at UTHSC, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and co-director of the Neuroscience Institute at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, a University of Tennessee Health Science Center professor and scientist, was named president of medicine and science on …

That may not be the case at … the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

A Memphis cardiologist is the new president-elect of the Tennessee Medical Association, the state’s largest association for physicians.

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has purchased a 19-story former hotel and office building that’s been vacant for two decades in the Memphis Medical Center, adding it to plans for the campus.