Allied Health Open House
UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison
UTHSC In the Media
Campus Recreation Director Appointed at UTHSC
Junius L. “J. Lee” Taylor has been named director of campus recreation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Before his appointment, Taylor was the interim director of campus recreation at UTHSC, a position he began in June. He has previously held positions as a coordinator, clinical trial interventionist, health educator and exercise specialist at… Read More
Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives
More than 150 people, most of them black women, packed into the Church Health Center last week to explore why black women here suffer most and how the community can help. Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’sinitiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have… Read More
Following in a surgeon’s footsteps
After more than 31 years with Campbell Clinic, James Beaty still remembers what set him on the path to become an orthopedic surgeon. He hopes he can make the same difference for a high school student looking to get into the field.
Dean of UT pharmacy college in Memphis knows business
Within about two months of becoming dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2012, Marie Chisholm-Burns enrolled at the University of Memphis to earn an MBA. Chisholm-Burns’ purpose was to experience a dual degree program available to pharmacy students so she could advise them, but she earned a… Read More
Wendi C. Thomas: Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives
Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s initiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have died from breast cancer.
People on the Move: Stephanie Phelps
Stephanie J. Phelps, PharmD, has been awarded the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Education Award. The award honors an ACCP member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the undergraduate or the postgraduate level.
UTHSC Names Chair of Neurology Department
Dr. Andrei V. Alexandrov has been appointed chair of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Neurology and a Semmes-Murphey professor. Alexandrov had been a professor of in the neurology department and director of the Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Alexandrov will begin his work at UTHSC in March.