S. Casey Laizure, a professor in the clinical pharmacy department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, has received a grant totaling $150,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Joan C. Han is coming to Memphis to be the founding director of the new UT-Le Bonheur Pediatric Obesity Center and to direct the new Le Bonheur Healthy Lifestyle Clinic. “A third of our kids are overweight or obese and that translates into two-thirds of our adults are overweight or obese in Tennessee,” said… Read More
“Changing our name to the College of Health Professions presents a more accurate reflection of the vision and mission of our college as articulated by our faculty, students, staff and alumni,” said Noma Anderson, dean of the college since 2010.
It is now the College of Health Professions. And it’s the college formerly known as Allied Health Sciences.
A physician from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has been tapped to direct a new UT-Le Bonheur Pediatric Obesity Center and to lead other initiatives at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital
With fall enrollment expected to be approximately 585 students, the UTHSC College of Health Professions (COHP) now comprises six departments: Audiology and Speech Pathology, Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Health Informatics and Information Management, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant Studies.
Dr. Teresa Waters is the senior author of a paper examining the post-recession financial health of hospitals that was presented at the National Press Club and published in Health Affairs, a leading journal of health policy, thought and research.
“The current trend is for occupational therapy services to be provided in the home,” says Anne Zachry, Ph.D., assistant professor of occupational therapy at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis and author of Retro Baby.
