The university is planning to begin construction on a satellite campus adjacent to Saint Thomas West Hospital within the year, according to Ken Brown, UTHSC executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer.
Medical residents aren’t new to Saint Thomas Health, but a new neighbor — a planned $40-million University of Tennessee Health Science Center site — will up the ante considerably.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is laying the groundwork for a dramatic expansion of its medical training program in Nashville. The Memphis-based institution is looking toward “a major construction project” that would bring more aspiring doctors to Middle Tennessee, according to a statement from UTHSC Chancellor Steve J. Schwab.
Samuel Dagogo-Jack is Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Director, Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, where he holds the A.C. Mullins Endowed Chair in Translational Research.
“Across the board, individuals who had better glucose control due to intensive therapy had increased survival,” said co-author Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis.
“We’re here for two methods of support: first aid evaluation triage for anyone in the airport, and health promotion and maintenance,” says Peg Thorman Hartig, PhD, FNP-BC, assistant vice chancellor for Community Engagement and Interprofessional Initiatives at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), and director of the airport health station.
Dr. Roger C. Young, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of biomedical innovation at the University of Tennessee Health-Science Center [said] “This is the beginning of the era of regenerative medicine, which will, at least in some part, replace organ transplants.”
Samuel Dagogo-Jack is Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Director, Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, where he holds the A.C. Mullins Endowed Chair in Translational Research.
