The keynote speaker was local businessman and mental-health advocate Michael Drake. Dr. Altha Stewart, senior associate dean of community-health engagement at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, led a workshop that offered continuing-education credits.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine – Chattanooga welcomed three new leaders to their team and awarded promotions to 13 faculty members this academic year. The college held a reception to honor these new leaders and promoted faculty members.
A release said the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital partnered with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Graduate School of Medicine to launch the program. It also said it would re-establish formal pediatric training for the Knoxville area for the first time in around 25 years.
A slew of capital-improvement projects dominated the conversation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s advisory board meeting Friday, Nov. 8.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has unveiled plans for an interdisciplinary building for its College of Medicine. At its Nov. 8 advisory board meeting, UTHSC executive vice chancellor for finance and administration and COO Raaj Kurapati announced plans for a $350 million new state-of-the-art build.
With the holiday season approaching, many children’s consumption of sweets increases significantly, but a recent study warns that it is worthwhile to moderate the consumption of sugar.
I’ve worked locum tenens off and on since 1982. Flexible schedules allowed me to write several books, pursue a parallel career as a medical journalist, lead medical missions in the Philippines, and develop modest expertise as an underwater photographer. But the recent rise in locum tenens practitioners signals trouble for medicine.
In a Viewpoint published today in JAMA Psychiatry, two psychiatrists from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis raise the alarm about the dangers and complexities of TikTok challenges. They’re an “emerging public health concern” for kids, the psychiatrists write, and they’re blurring the lines between unintentional injuries and suicide attempts in children and… Read More
