Publisher: The Commercial Appeal


UTHSC’s Allied Health Open House 2-4 pm Friday in the SAC

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UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Open to anyone interested in learning about careers in the allied health professions — dental hygiene, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science, health informatics, cytotechnology/histotechnology. 901-448-2126. uthsc.edu/allied.


Allied Health Open House

The Commercial Appeal

UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison


Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

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More than 150 people, most of them black women, packed into the Church Health Center last week to explore why black women here suffer most and how the community can help. Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’sinitiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have… Read More


Wendi C. Thomas: Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

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Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s initiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have died from breast cancer.


Dr. Krukowski Quoted in Weight Loss Article

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Becca Krukowski, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC, is quoted in “Weight Loss Roads Less Traveled By,” on page 21 of The Commercial Appeal’s Good Health magazine.


UT library in Memphis dumps journals for digital age

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s library is undergoing a $4.4 million makeover for the digital age. Electronic journals, more space for small study groups and plenty of power plugs for devices are in. One hundred tons of old-school, printed journals are out. “Libraries of the days of old are no longer how libraries really work,”… Read More


Dean of UT Pharmacy College in Memphis Knows Business

The Commercial Appeal

Within about two months of becoming dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2012, Marie Chisholm-Burns enrolled at the University of Memphis to earn an MBA. Chisholm-Burns’ purpose was to experience a dual degree program available to pharmacy students so she could advise them, but she earned a new perspective… Read More


Marie Chisholm-Burns, pharmacy college dean at UTHSC, knows business

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Marie Chisholm-Burns, pharmacy college dean at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, heads a college whose students are virtually guaranteed six-figure incomes once they graduate as pharmacists.