“Dr. Brown served as the primary architect of the UTHSC master plan,” said Steve Schwab, MD, chancellor of the health science center. “The plan was drafted by a third-party consultant (Perkins + Will) after extensive consultation with Dr. Brown and members of the Chancellor’s Cabinet and the deans. It was vetted with faculty, staff and… Read More
Another study published in JAMA Internal Medicine led by Teresa Waters, PhD, of the University of the Tennessee Health Science Center, found that after the new federal policy was introduced, central line-associated bloodstream infections fell by 11 percent and catheter-associated urinary tract infections fell by ten percent.
In a few short years, the Memphis, Tennessee native [and former UTHSC student] has not only managed to win research and teaching awards, she’s also proved adept with handling her share of the heavy administrative and faculty service workload she’s taken on as one of the pharmacy school’s founding faculty members.
The Nashville satellite will not affect the Memphis campus, which has served as home to the University of Tennessee’s medical school for 103 years, according to a top official. ‘In fact, it increases our reach and makes us stronger both in Memphis and statewide,’ Ken Brown, UTHSC executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer, said in a… Read More
UTHSC assistant dean Jessica Wells said … the number of residents at Saint Thomas Health hospitals is expected to increase from about 32 to about 200 over the next three year.
The aim is a satellite campus in Nashville in partnership with Saint Thomas Health that would be called UT Health Science Center Nashville Campus.
The Tennessean reports UTHSC Chancellor Steve J. Schwab said in a statement that the institution, which is based in Memphis, is eyeing “a major construction project” that would bring allow it to attract more medical students to Middle Tennessee.
Jessica Wells, vice president for medical education and research for Saint Thomas Health and an assistant dean for graduate medical education at UTHSC, said the training program would serve aspiring doctors and dentists, advanced practice nurses and other health providers.
