UTHSC In the Media


Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center opens today

WREG

A new pediatric clinic in Memphis will offer free occupational therapy to children. Randy and Katrina Stevens are here. The clinic honors their late daughter. They’re joined by Anne Zachry from the UT Health Science Center.


UTHSC opens pro bono clinic in memory of student

The Memphis Business Journal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has opened a pro bono pediatric occupational therapy center in honor of a student who died in 2015. UTHSC student Rachel Kay Stevens died suddenly in January 2015, just after starting occupational therapy school. She was 21 years old.


Leadership established for new Medical District group

The Memphis Business Journal

The new Medical District Collaborative board includes … Dr. Kennard Brown, executive vice-chancellor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


Haslam budget plan includes new $39 million dentistry building at UT Health Science Center

The Commercial Appeal

Gov. Bill Haslam’s fiscal year 2017 budget proposal unveiled Monday night includes $39 million for a new College of Dentistry building at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and to renovate existing dentistry school facilities.


Planners map ways to spark life in Medical Center, Edge District

The Commercial Appeal

Many different signs of various styles, colors and sizes greet visitors who drive through the Memphis Medical Center along Union: Methodist University Hospital, Methodist Healthcare, Southern College of Optometry, Church Health Center, Baptist College of Health Sciences, an orange “UT,” UT-Baptist Research Park, and University of Tennessee Health Science Center …


February dental clinic promises free care, long lines

The Commercial Appeal

In the Memphis area, those places include the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry …


Ophthalmologist Praises Suture-less Procedure

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[Aaron] Waite now is director of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery at the Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and is a leading proponent of the relatively new corneal transplant procedure DMEK – Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty.


UTHSC Postdoctoral Fellow Researching Brain Proteins

The Daily News

Dr. Lynda Wilmott, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $52,500 grant to explore proteins in the brain that play a key role in controlling the communication of nerve cells that are important for encoding and storing memories.