Last October, 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.
Indeed, homemade lunches are often higher in calories and lower in nutritional value than the fare served in the lunch line. That’s not so surprising since they tend to reflect the packaged foods that fill the American diet, says Mark Corkins, chief of pediatric gastroenterology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital at the University of Tennessee… Read More
Le Bonheur’s partnerships with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have helped build a strong reputation for both teaching and discovery in Memphis and Shelby County.
