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UChicago Alum Suing U. of Tennessee for Deeming Her Social Media Posts “Unprofessional”

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Kimberly Diei (A.B. ’15), a second-year pharmacy student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Pharmacy, is suing UTHSC after the school tried to expel her for social media posts that violated their professionalism standards.


Hospitals are beginning to blame serious vaccine injuries on the deceased patient’s immune system

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Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean of the College of Medicine at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is blaming the deceased doctor’s sudden onset of MIS as an immunological response to a previous COVID infection, not a reaction to the vaccine. Dr. Threlkeld went along with the theory, dismissing the deceased doctor’s multiple negative COVID… Read More


Parse Biosciences Launches Whole Transcriptome Kit to Dramatically Scale Single Cell Sequencing

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Parse Biosciences, a company providing researchers with scalable and flexible single cell sequencing solutions, today announced the launch of their Single Cell Whole Transcriptome Kit. The kit, which was previously available only through Parse’s early access program, is now generally available to all researchers in North America. Lawrence T. Reiter, Ph.D and Professor of Neurology… Read More


When Katty Met Carlos: America’s loneliness epidemic

Carlos Watson and Ritula Shah explore loneliness among American’s with leading experts Dr. Altha Stewart, former head of the American Psychiatric Association, senior associate dean for Community Health Engagement in the UTHSC College of Medicine, associate professor of Psychiatry and Dr. Deepak Chopra.


Memphis People in Business: Feb. 18, 2021

The Commercial Appeal

Dr. Gregg Mitchell has been named chair of the Department of Family Medicine in Jackson for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. He was serving as interim chair since 2015 and serves the department as both the program director and fellowship director. He assumed his new role in November. Mitchell received… Read More


Post-pandemic life: Is the mask here to stay?

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Since the SARS outbreaks, “in Asian culture, it’s pretty common to wear a mask a lot,” said Dr. Scott Strome, dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Nick Hysmith, medical director of infection prevention at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor at UTHSC, says… Read More


Isolation, snow punching COVID just when it’s weak

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That this weather system is so large, covering much of the southern half of the nation and flowing into the Eastern Seaboard is all the better, says Dr. Scott Strome, executive dean of the College of Medicine at UTHSC, because it has effectively halted the daily exchanges COVID needs to survive. “Nobody wants to implement… Read More


Should I send my child back to in-person school? | A Q&A with Dr. Manoj Jain

The Commercial Appeal

Of the many studies, one study from University of Tennessee, Knoxville released a few weeks ago is most convincing. The researchers studied two schools during the fall of 2020 in the Southeast US, following cases closely and doing regular testing. Of the 3,500 students and staff followed 137 cases where identified and when detailed tracing… Read More