If it was what she wanted, Erika Dillard wouldn’t struggle to find work as a physician. She has an M.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and spent four years as a neurosurgery resident at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia. Yet after growing up in Huntsville, Alabama — where NASA’s… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has landed $3.2 million in federal money to upgrade a laboratory used for research on infectious diseases. In a news release, the Memphis campus says the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded the money for equipment and infrastructure improvements at the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory.
This week is National Nurse Midwifery Week, to raise awareness to the work and importance of midwives. The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has become the second school in the state to offer a midwifery program.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received $3.2 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to upgrade the equipment and infrastructure in the UTHSC Regional Biocontainment Laboratory to enhance the university’s research of infectious diseases like COVID-19.
If federal guidance on who needs a booster shot seems complicated and long, the state commissioner of health shortens it to two words: “should” and “may.” Yes, if you are 65, you should get a booster, says Dr. Lisa Piercey. The same is true of anyone living in a long-term care facility and those ages… Read More
Sutton Mora’s job requires her to stay up to date on all COVID-19 news. After all, she oversees millions of dollars in COVID-19 relief grants in her role as executive vice president and COO of the Community of Foundation of Greater Memphis. “I’m obsessive about it,” she said, adding with a laugh, “Then I will… Read More
Eighteen months into what we now know as COVID World, it’s difficult to not feel like we’re all the victims of some cosmic bait-and-switch game. COVID-19 arrived in our lives with little to no warning (well, that’s another story for another day) and was supposed to be no more inconvenient than those visiting in-laws who… Read More
Adam S. Arthur, MD, MPH, has been named chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
