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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
“When you talk about milk replacements, you have to look at the definition of milk,” says Frances Tylavsky, a professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
Dr. Jena J. Steinle, associate professor in the departments of ophthalmology, anatomy and neurobiology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Health Science Center, has been appointed director of research at the Hamilton Eye Institute.
