Le Bonheur established BIG just over two years ago, with the goal of studying the influence of genes on diseases and their treatment. UTHSC researchers will be able to submit a proposal to request use of DNA from the biorepository. If approved, researchers will sign a material use agreement in which they would agree to… Read More
Patients who use high levels of hospital services are a costly burden on the healthcare system, but a new study suggests that pairing them with community navigators can help. Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare studied the role community navigators can play in reducing the burden of… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s new $9.5 million outpatient center in Jackson is now open… The 255-bed Le Bonheur hospital in Memphis serves as a primary teaching affiliate for the University Tennessee Health Science Center and trains more than 350 pediatricians and specialists each year.
A research team from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has published a study that found black children are more than twice as likely to die after surgery than white children. The team zeroed in on those findings after developing race-specific models to predict surgical outcomes. Their study is… Read More
A research team from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has published a study that found black children are more than twice as likely to die after surgery than white children.
When you look at these faces, it’s easy to see 6-year-old Ariana Jones and her mom, Maria Mitchell, are not your average daughter and mother, but they’re two people with a special bond. “We take for granted we’re going to wake up and everything will be fine and it’s business as usual, but that’s not… Read More
… a 2001 decision to make academic – or teaching – hospitals of Methodist University and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital through its partnership with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center …
… the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital opened a Healthy Lifestyles Clinic as part of their joint Pediatric Obesity Program under the direction of Joan Han, MD, a Harvard-educated endocrinologist and former U.S. Public Health Service officer.
