The path to seizure freedom can be a long and frustrating journey. We often have to try different medications or combine several treatments before finding a suitable treatment with minimal side effects. 1,2 For this reason, it is essential that we try to get our patients on the right treatment plan right from the start.… Read More
It makes all the sense in the world that Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland asked Dr. Manoj Jain to advise him on COVID-19. Jain specializes in infectious diseases. He is also a noted writer, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Commercial Appeal.
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $559,327 from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for research into arterial stiffness and hypertension.
As one of the local public faces of the fight against COVID-19, Dr. Jon McCullers has given it to us straight, reassured and scolded us. McCullers is a member of the Memphis/Shelby County Joint COVID-19 Task Force and the subcommittee of the Back to Business Task Force. He often appears at Health Department press conferences… Read More
UTHSC’s Dr. Jon McCullers weighs in on reporting COVID-19 cases at school and pandemic trends in Shelby County
In a century’s worth of drug approvals, only four sickle cell disease treatments have received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. A University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) researcher hopes her work will help increase that number. Athena Starlard-Davenport, Ph.D., was awarded a three-year, $900,000-plus National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to serve as… Read More
Just a few days before the 57th anniversary of the civil rights March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream Speech,” APA hosted the second in a series of town hall meetings to address structural racism in psychiatry. A distinguished panel of Black psychiatrists spoke to approximately 425 APA… Read More
According to Dr. Jon McCullers — an infectious disease expert who serves as a member of the Memphis/Shelby County Joint COVID-19 Task Force; as Pediatrician-in-Chief at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital; and as the COO of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center — having the tripwires and a response framework in place was more… Read More
