Laura Lasiter, a recent graduate from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been selected for a fellowship that will allow her to work in a U.S. congressperson’s office for a year.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Memphis in a two-day workshop to help public health and safety officials, epidemiologists, law enforcement officials, first responders and civilian support teams identify how to work together to respond in the event of a bioterrorism threat.
The former chief of staff at Campbell Clinic has been named chair of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) orthopedic department. James Beaty, a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at Campbell Clinic, has been named chair of the UT-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering.
A University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) professor has received a $1.68 million grant to study the digestive tract.
The merger was set in motion in September of last year, after Jack and Betty Moore donated several million dollars to The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research, the fundraising arm of the West Cancer Center. The donation was made in honor of Margaret West, mother of West Clinic founder William West.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Dentistry Alumni Association presented its 2016 Outstanding Alumnus Award, the association’s highest honor, to Philip Wenk, ‘77, D.D.S, president and CEO of Delta Dental of Tennessee.
But Robert Klesgas, professor of Preventive Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, wants to be sure no one is kidding themselves about nicotine use. Klesges has been researching the health impacts of nicotine addiction and smoking for more than 30 years.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has opened a pro bono pediatric occupational therapy center in honor of a student who died in 2015. UTHSC student Rachel Kay Stevens died suddenly in January 2015, just after starting occupational therapy school. She was 21 years old.
