Vapor Haze of the Future
‘In 20 years, I would predict that we will know they’re safer than cigarettes, but they’re not safe.’ –Bob Klesges, Professor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Department of Preventive Medicine
UTHSC In the Media
Dr. Wu Receives Grant for Breast Cancer Research
Dr. Wu, an assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is now being supported by a Research Scholar Grant, RSG-13-186-01-CSM, from the American Cancer Society. The four-year grant, which totals $720,000, will fund his study titled “Role of Genotoxic NF-kB Activation in Breast… Read More
Where his heart is: John Bissler
… John Bissler, the new Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and a nationally known tuberous sclerosis (TS) expert … will also serve as director of Le Bonheur’s Tuberous Sclerosis Center of Excellence and a professor at theUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center.
UTHSC prof awarded $1.6 million to continue diabetes study
Karen C. Johnson MD, professor and interim chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been awarded a $1.6 million grant to continue research on treatments for type 2 diabetes.
Infant Mortality Of Eight Memphis Zip Codes Is Triple The Rate Of National Average
Dr. Paul Juarez and his wife Dr. Patricia Mathhews-Juarez have set up a research center at UT Health Science Center to look at health disparities.
Improving Disparities
Paul D. Juarez, Ph.D, and Patricia Matthews-Juarez, Ph.D, were recruited by Dr. David Stern, executive dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to not only document, research and examine health disparities here, but as Stern told them, to “move the needle.” “Dr. Stern gets it,” Matthews-Juarez said.
UTHSC’s Allied Health Open House 2-4 pm Friday in the SAC
UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Open to anyone interested in learning about careers in the allied health professions — dental hygiene, physician assistant, physical and occupational therapy, clinical laboratory science, health informatics, cytotechnology/histotechnology. 901-448-2126. uthsc.edu/allied.
UTHSC to Offer Online Nursing Degree Programs
The Tennessee Board of Nursing has approved a proposal from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to offer a new degree program all online – the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree Program. Starting immediately, the UTHSC College of Nursing will begin to accept applications for its fall 2014 online class of… Read More