In the Media Tag: UTHSC


Institutions Join Fight Against Childhood Obesity

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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.


Kosten Foundation Lifts Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

The Daily News

Since its founding, the organization has provided nearly $500,000 for pancreatic research at UTHSC.


UTHSC simulation center aids effort to reduce medical malpractice

The Memphis Business Journal

UTHSC’s new Multidisciplinary Simulation Center building will bring students from each of the university’s six colleges to train together with state-of-the-art simulation equipment and real patient actors with simulated conditions, putting students in an environment where they can practice patient encounters.


UTHSC Nabs Three Federal Grants Worth $780,000

The Daily News

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has won a trio of federal grants aimed at furthering its brand research projects.


UT pulls $20M permit for simulation center

The Commercial Appeal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, pressing forward with plans for its new Multidisciplinary Simulation Education Building, has pulled a construction permit. The permit for the building at 26 S. Dunlap values the construction at $20 million.


UTHSC Pursuing Hotel-Conference Center in Medical District

The Daily News

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is looking for a developer to build a hotel and conference center at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and South Pauline Street. The university won approval from an executive subcommittee of the Tennessee Building Commission on Monday, Aug. 24, to issue a request for proposal on the… Read More


UTHSC wants proposals for replacing a boarded-up high-rise eyesore in the Medical District

The Commercial Appeal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is asking potential developers for proposals to turn the old 19-story Medical Center Towers and parking garage at the edge of its Memphis campus from a boarded-up eyesore into a new hotel and conference center.


Healing Hands opens new location

Dr. Ken Brown, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center in Memphis, announced there will also be a new dental student internship program that will begin in September.