… John Bissler, the new Chief of Pediatric Nephrology at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and a nationally known tuberous sclerosis (TS) expert … will also serve as director of Le Bonheur’s Tuberous Sclerosis Center of Excellence and a professor at theUniversity of Tennessee Health Science Center.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison
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
