UTHSC Taps New Director for Plough Center
Dr. Harry Kochat has been named the new director of the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Systems at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
UTHSC In the Media
Grandfamilies: The Health Challenges of Raising Grandchildren
With an opioid abuse epidemic raging, many children of parents addicted to prescription painkillers or heroin, or whose parents have died from overdosing on the powerful drugs, are now being cared for by their grandparents. That’s contributed significantly to a rise in so-called grandfamilies: As of last year, 2.9 million children in the U.S. were… Read More
Good Sleep Crucial to Seniors
f you think good sleep hygiene means taking a bath before bedtime, read on. While cleanliness is admirable, there’s more to this type of hygiene than soap and water. Good sleep hygiene involves all the things you do to get ready for sleep — your bedtime routine. And it can mean the difference between spending the… Read More
Memphis Health Care Thrives with Investments, Growth
Methodist Healthcare made a “great commitment” to Memphis this year. Those are the words of Methodist University Hospital CEO Jeff Liebman, who referenced the health care system’s multimillion-dollar investment into its flagship hospital at 1265 Union Ave., part of a master plan that will give the facility a modern overhaul. On the facilities front, UTHSC… Read More
UT Mobile Stroke Unit Saving Lives in First Months on Streets
With just more than four months on Memphis streets since its debut, the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is already seeing impressive results from its new Mobile Stroke Unit.
UTHSC Graduates 135 Health Care Professionals in Winter Commencement
MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduated 135 new health care professionals during its winter commencement on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. in the Cook Convention Center Grand Ballroom, 255 North Main Street.
UTHSC Faculty Members Get Almost $4 Million in Funding for Military Research Projects
A trio of University of Tennessee Health Science Center professors has won almost $4 million in grant funding to pursue studies that could produce insights eventually useful to the military. They’re separate studies, one focused on a look at tobacco use by military recruits. Two of the three faculty members are working on that one.… Read More
UTHSC Drug Development Center Gets New Director, Facility
For Dr. Harry Kochat, the new director of the Plough Center for Sterile Drug Delivery Systems at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), coming to Memphis means coming full circle. Kochat has been in pharmaceutical development for more than 30 years, and the first drug he developed was formulated at the original Plough… Read More