While the CDC and local health leaders caution against traveling, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee welcomed people to come from near and far to enjoy all the Volunteer State has to offer.
A new report from the American Psychological Association shows just how stressful life in America was in 2020… “I’m not surprised,” said Kara Caruthers, an associate professor in the physician assistant program at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Memphis. Caruthers explained that when the body feels stress, a cascade… Read More
New information shows a partisan divide is getting in the way of vaccinating everyone in the United States. According to a Monmouth University Polling Institute study, one in four Republicans said they would not get vaccinated.
Bruce L. Keisling, executive director for Developmental Disabilities at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been named a 2021 Fellow of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD). He will be recognized during the organization’s 145th annual meeting in Jacksonville, Fla., in June. Dr. Keisling also holds the Shainberg Professorship in… Read More
Wednesday, David Sweat with the Shelby County Health Department said there was cluster of more than 20 cases last month within the University of Memphis’ athletics program of the highly contagious, COVID-19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom. Wednesday, Local 24 News also learned area labs detected five times as many COVID-19 variant cases… Read More
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute recently awarded Jonathan H. Jaggar, PhD, Maury Bronstein Endowed Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), a $2.3 million grant for his study titled “PKD proteins in endothelial cells.” The proposal’s goal is to provide a new understanding of how… Read More
On Sunday, March 8, one year ago, Dr. Manoj Jain stood at a nurse’s station at Baptist Memorial Hospital and watched his world and ours suddenly and inevitably change forever….Jain teaches classes in health policy and management for the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, and for UTHSC in Memphis.
This past year has been anything but normal, especially for our students and teachers. Perhaps the biggest decision school leaders had to make when to return to in-person learning.
