The largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants has included two local institutions in its latest round of financing. Grants from Los Angeles-based St. Baldrick’s Foundation totaling more than $1.1 million were awarded to researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. St. Jude received the bulk… Read More
In less than a month, the UT/Methodist Transplant Institute has added two highly regarded professionals in the transplant field. The Transplant Institute named Dr. Daniel Maluf as surgical director of liver transplantation. He will also be a professor of surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and director of live donor transplantation… Read More
Two researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will lead a new institute that aims to address health inequities in the South. UTHSC’s Karen Johnson, endowed professor of women’s health in the Department of Preventative Medicine, and Michelle Martin, director of the Center for Innovation in Health Equity Research and professor of… Read More
The UTHSC College of Nursing Partnership Enrollment Programs (PEPs) will allow eligible students enrolled at LeMoyne-Owen and Rhodes colleges to receive guaranteed full admission into UTHSC’s accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. Students who meet additional requirements will also be able to participate in a bridge Doctor of Nursing (DNP) or Ph.D. program.
Health care depends on different disciplines working together to address patient needs. But, historically interprofessionalism was not a part of the traditional health science education system, according to Sajeesh Kumar, associate professor of health informatics and information Management at University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
MMDC is comprised of Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis Bioworks Foundation, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Regional One Health, Southern College of Optometry, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Southwest Tennessee Community College and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has promoted one of its own, and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is expanding again.
Before local medical students can train with actual patients, they have to log time on a simulator. A very human-like simulator. Think a blinking, breathing, crying, baby-birthing simulator. Next month, University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will officially open its latest project, the $39.7 million Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS).
