Earlier this year, 70 University of Tennessee Health Science Center employees were let go from their job amid the pandemic. Friday, they protested their layoffs, as their severance pay ends in just five days. Frustrated former employees rallied at the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees annual meeting Friday, calling the layoffs “immoral.” They said… Read More
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2 from UTHSC receive UT President’s Awards
Two innovators at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center received the annual President’s Award Friday from UT president Randy Boyd. The awards were announced at the UT board of trustees quarterly meeting in Memphis. Colleen Jonsson, endowed Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Virology at UTHSC, is a national leader in research, immunology and… Read More
Summer ‘could be rough’ for unvaccinated, those without prior infections
With the Delta coronavirus variant 50% more transmissible than the Alpha variant, Shelby County Health Department deputy director David Sweat said the summer could be “rough” for those who are not vaccinated or have not already had the coronavirus. “If you’re vaccinated you’re probably going to have a good summer,” he said, noting those who… Read More
College of nursing receives grant for sickle cell disease care boot camp for nurses
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing has received a $50,000 grant to develop an innovative and intensive training program for nurses who care for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).
Le Bonheur pediatric physicians want Methodist-UTHSC pact delayed
The long-awaited partnership agreement between Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is expected to be approved by the UT board of trustees Friday. But one group of physicians, the UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists, is asking for the vote to be delayed.
Makowski, Pierre publish findings on obesity and response to cancer therapy
Liza Makowski, PhD, professor in the Department of Medicine and the UTHSC Center for Cancer Research, has long been interested in how the immune system is altered by obesity and how this impacts cancer risk and treatment.
Super Women 2021: Miska Clay Bibbs, Nancy Cheairs, and Karen Hasty
Meet three of MBJ’s 2021 Super Women in Business: Miska Clay Bibbs of Teach for America Memphis and Shelby County Schools, artist Nancy Cheairs of Binder Projects and Flicker Street Studio, and Karen Hasty of UTHSC and the Memphis VA Medical Center.
7 GI exec moves in the past month
Seven GI executive moves in the past month: 2. Mansour Parsi, MD, was appointed the Hyman Professor of Medicine and chief of gastroenterology and hepatology in the college of medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.