Shelby County Health Officer Bruce Randolph claimed Thursday a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigation into the county’s handling of vaccines “exonerates us.” March 18: Fox13 March 18: Fox13 News—5PM March 19: WKNO-FM March 19: Fox17 This Morning
Bruce L. Keisling, executive director for Developmental Disabilities at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). He will be recognized during the organization’s 145th annual meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., in June. Dr. Keisling also holds the Shainberg Professorship in… Read More
Dustin Fulton has been named assistant dean for Admissions in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Fulton has served as interim assistant dean since May and most recently served as associate director in Student Affairs and Community Engagement. He has been with UTHSC since 2014.
In Jan., I returned to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the Elvis Presley Trauma Center at Regional One Health with great excitement. Having completed my fellowship training here in 1998, I was well aware of the pioneering trauma care that was started at UTHSC by Dr. Timothy Fabian in 1983.
Dr. Gregg Mitchell has been named chair of the Department of Family Medicine in Jackson for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. He was serving as interim chair since 2015 and serves the department as both the program director and fellowship director. He assumed his new role in November. Mitchell received… Read More
Of the many studies, one study from University of Tennessee, Knoxville released a few weeks ago is most convincing. The researchers studied two schools during the fall of 2020 in the Southeast US, following cases closely and doing regular testing. Of the 3,500 students and staff followed 137 cases where identified and when detailed tracing… Read More
Although a new strain of coronavirus has been detected in Shelby County, the head of the joint COVID-19 task-force virus sequencing group said Tuesday that it is the least worrisome of two worrisome Brazilian strains. Dr. Manoj Jain, who oversees and coordinates the efforts in Shelby County to genetically sequence 100 random positive tests a… Read More
Last week a variant strain has been found where the mutations are identical to the United Kingdom variant, B117 strain. Now, the state health department is reviewing the data and confirming the findings.
