Erlanger Opens New Primary Care Location In Ooltewah
Erlanger Primary Care is expanding its footprint with a new location in Ooltewah at 5953 Elementary Way, Suite 109.
UTHSC In the Media
UTC’s Megan McKnight Honored By White House For Leadership In Opioid Overdose Prevention
Dr. Jessi Gold, the UT System chief wellness officer and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Health Science Center in Memphis, said Narcan training and distribution “can save lives, period,” citing examples of seeing it as a psychiatrist first-hand from patients in the emergency room.
Asxl1 Gene Disruption Boosts T-cell Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy, using a patient’s own immune system to treat disease, has shown promise in some patients with cancer but has not worked in most.
I swore I wouldn’t become a psychiatrist, but then it happened anyway
I entered medical school absolutely certain of one thing: I didn’t want to be a psychiatrist like my father.
U.S. News & World Report Names Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Among “Best Children’s Hospitals” for 2024-2025
Le Bonheur is the primary pediatric hospital affiliate with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Together, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur train more than 350 new pediatricians and pediatric specialists each year.
How doctor’s mission to ease the burden of sickle cell disease in Nigeria led her to Memphis
Dr. Aisha Galadanci Akilu, a hematologist focusing on sickle cell disease, is in the process of earning a PhD in health outcomes and policy research at UTHSC. Research she has done in Memphis has already made a difference in her hometown of Kano, Nigeria.
Tennessee’s Medicaid program started covering DNA mapping to find genetic conditions
When Christina Kettler gave birth to her first child, Fitz, in the summer of 2019, he seemed happy and healthy. He got the standard newborn screening — a heel prick blood test that all babies get to catch dozens of potential genetic disorders like sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis.
Finding Humanity in Provider Burnout, and Other Stories of Perseverance
Statistics don’t tell the full story of healthcare burnout, maintains Jessi Gold, MD, MS, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. People do.