UTHSC In the Media


2015 a Big Year for Memphis Health Community

The Daily News

Vaxent chief scientific officer James B. Dale, who also serves as a professor of medicine and chief of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, invented the vaccine based on more than 25 years of laboratory research.


Local law enforcement train for active shooter scenarios

There were about 400 homicides in the workplace last year,” said Dr. Daniel Sumrok … director of the Center for Addiction Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


Dr. James Wheless Interviewed for Infantile Spasms Week

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“We have Dr. James Whelees. He’s a professor and chief of pediatric neurology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center … “


The largest colleges and universities in the Mid-South

The Memphis Business Journal

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center was near the top of the list.


West Cancer Center Opens New Wolf River Facility

The Daily News

The West Cancer Center serves all adults impacted by cancer, and the partnership behind it helps fulfill that mission by pulling together the resources from three institutions – West Clinic, Methodist and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


One woman’s plastic surgery gone wrong; learn how to protect yourself

WREG

Wallace is the head of the University of Tennessee’s plastic surgery department. He said the problem with this procedure isn’t the technique but usually who’s allowed to perform it. “It’s not that the technology is bad,” he said. “It’s that their patient might not be aware that they’re seeing a physician who doesn’t have formal… Read More


West Cancer Center debuts in Germantown, plans another location in Midtown

The Commercial Appeal

With a partnership formed in 2012 by The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, the West Cancer Center links cancer treatment, clinical trials, education and research together under the same roof.


National Institutes of Health is good for physical, economic well-being

Currently, the NIH is funding $626 million in projects in Tennessee, with $124 million of those in Memphis primarily going to University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University of Memphis and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.