Director chosen for new UTHSC Sickle Cell Disease Center
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has launched a new Center for Sickle Cell Disease in the College of Medicine and tapped a leader for it who will come on board in July.
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Volunteers from local institutions come together to open community clinic
Dr. David Stern, Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs for Statewide Initiatives at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center says the building has great potential. “A nutrition program and fitness program are part of our clinic,” Stern said. “We’d like the fitness program to be right here in this building and as well to be… Read More
UTHSC Instrumental in New Wellness & Stress Clinic Bringing Health Care to Oakhaven Church
‘We can have an impact right here, right now,’ said David M. Stern, MD, vice chancellor for Health Affairs for Statewide Initiatives at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, summing up the importance of the new Wellness & Stress Clinic of Memphis that opened today in the Oakhaven community in South Memphis.
Tennessee Starts Its Own School Safety Panel
As the White House launches a federal task force on school safety, Tennessee has one of its own. David Greene talks to Dr. Altha Stewart, associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Health in Justice Involved Youth at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, who is on the newly formed working… Read More
UTHSC Names Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
Darrylinn Todd, EdD, has been named interim associate vice chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). In this role, she will provide executive leadership for and oversee several administrative units that provide centralized campus support activities and services to students, including the Offices of Admissions, Financial… Read More
Rhodes, U of M, UTHSC team up with Healing church
Bishop William Young and Pastor Dianne Young, founders of the Suicide in the Black Church conference, had a vision to have a clinic at their church. With a background in community health — primarily mental health — the couple was introduced to Dr. David M. Stern, vice chancellor for health for statewide initiatives at University… Read More
University group launches program where docs are ‘on call’ — literally
In the next three weeks, faculty from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will begin offering telemedicine to some rural parts of Tennessee.