The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is using the Respecting Choices program to teach students in health care professions how to have conversations with patients about their care preferences. The program uses actors trained to raise realistic patient issues, and the goal is to help patients consider advance directives.
Dr. Benny Weksler … chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and also UTHSC’s first Eastridge-Cole Professor … is a key player in a lung cancer screening program that UTHSC and the West Clinic hope to launch by this fall.
Medical professionals often have difficult conversations with patients, but a new program at UT Health Science Center encourages students to bring up the touchy subject of “what happens if.”
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is one of the leaders in changing the look and feel of the area, with $175 million in construction or renovation projects underway or in the planning stages, driven mostly by the desire to produce a modern campus attractive to students, faculty and researchers.
Researchers at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center announced results from a clinical trial of a drug shown to safely reduce the viral load and clinical illness of healthy adult volunteers intranasally infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
… the Erlanger board of trustees approved a long-awaited affiliation agreement with the University of Tennessee.
Because the number of citations can indicate a publications impact on a field and also indicate areas of high interest in research, Matthew Pagni, MD, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, and colleagues sought to identify the most cited articles in radiologic journals as of May 2013.
Dr. Ben Gbulie said he soon will lead a team of surgeons on a medical mission to Nigeria. The certified Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon who is on faculty at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee said the team would undertake surgeries in some states in the northern part of the country that… Read More
