UTHSC In the Media


Study Led by Fellow Shows Heart Health Risks of “Die-Hard” Sports Fans

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Dr. Maturana earned his medical degree from the University of Valparaíso, Chile, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Now, Dr. Maturana, is a chief cardiology fellow in the Department of Internal Medicine in the UTHSC College of Medicine.


Novel scoring tool predicts alcohol relapse after liver transplant with 96.2% sensitivity

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“Alcohol relapse after liver transplant for alcoholic liver disease is frequent, with incidence ranging from 4% to 95% of LT recipients,” Jiten P. Kothadia, MD, a transplant hepatologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, told Healio. “This leads to poor graft function, low medication adherence and decreased overall survival.”


Erlanger Medical Group adds 3 physicians to the team

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Erlanger Medical Group announce the addition of Drs. Leahanne Giffin, Taylor Millirons and Hannah West to Erlanger Internal Medicine and Erlanger Primary Care. Dr. Giffin is a board-certified internal medicine physician with Erlanger Internal Medicine.


Higher Education Grants or Gifts of Interest to African Americans

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Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has received a four-year, $4 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support… Read More


UTHSC student lounge opens at Regional One Health

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Regional One Health now has a dedicated space for students and residents from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. This comes as Shelby County’s public hospital and UTHSC inch closer to a partnership that would establish Regional One as an academic medical center affiliated with the university.


Lupus Therapeutics Announces Partnership to Support the Evaluation of Natural Killer (NK) Cell Therapy in Lupus Nephritis

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Research  that provided much of the foundation for the development of CAR-T cell therapy, the first-generation cell therapy approach currently in clinical development, for lupus was funded in part by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) Lupus Innovation Award grant in 2014 to Marko Radic, Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Lupus Therapeutics, and… Read More


Why is hand, food, & mouth sometimes worse for adults?

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Dr. Christian Blake Bergeron, M.D., pediatrician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, says adults who have severe cases of HFMD may have just never contracted it as kids, so their immune system fighting it off for the first time.


Researchers receive $423,500 for study to improve outcomes from fungal infections

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Researchers in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have received a $423,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health for research aimed at reducing disease and mortality rates associated with Aspergillus infections by focusing on the molecular pathways in… Read More