UTHSC In the Media


UTHSC prof awarded $1.6 million to continue diabetes study

The Memphis Business Journal

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

WREG

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

The Daily News

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

The Commercial Appeal

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 Daily News

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


Allied Health Open House

The Commercial Appeal

UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison


Campus Recreation Director Appointed at UTHSC

The Daily News

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

The Commercial Appeal

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