An online auction of more than 300 works of art by Memphis artist Paul Penczner on Wednesday collected more than $70,000 at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, according to officials at the Memphis school. Penczner died in 2010 at age 93 and his widow, Jolanda Penczner, donated works of art and the building that… Read More
Anne Zachry, also an OT and professor for UT, educates and mentors teen moms through the Exchange Club Family Center’s First S.T.E.P.S. program. “We know how brains develop, or don’t, and how that impacts everything — behavior, learning, physical and mental health,” said Zachry, who also attended the conference. “We have the research. We need to… Read More
Heavy equipment demolished another chunk of the Goodman Family Residence Hall on Wednesday, and a former bus barn, Randolph Hall and the Feurt also are slated to bite the dust on the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus. Meanwhile, a $49 million Translational Science Research Building is shaping up for its debut by the summer of… Read More
Dr. Ari VanderWalde, the new associate vice chancellor of clinical trial research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center said cases like Josh’s are extremely complicated, highly charged and center not only on the patient seeking an unproven drug, but the risk of jeopardizing others in the future who would get it.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Lifeblood host community blood drive: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday in the UTHSC General Education Building (rooms B201-B204), 8 S. Dunlap. Walk-ins are welcome. Call 901-529-6320 for an appointment. Visit clublifeblood.org.
Dr. Andrei Alexandrov said he couldn’t make stroke specialists available citywide in Birmingham, so he’s moved to Memphis, where he believes he has a better shot. Alexandrov is moving in to his office at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine, where he is the new chairman of the Department of Neurology, and Semmes-Murphey… Read More
“Migraines cost our society billions of dollars a year,” said Memphis neurologist Dr. Stephen Landy… He is also a founding partner of Wesley Neurology Headache Clinic in Memphis and a Clinical Professor of Neurology at UT Health Science Center in Memphis.
Maria Gomes-Solecki, Assistant Professor, Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry with UTHSC as well as President and CEO of Immunotechnologies, Inc., has worked to complete a field study that shows a vaccine for mice that helps fight Lyme disease in humans.
