UTHSC In the Media


Wendi C. Thomas: Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

The Commercial Appeal

Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s initiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have died from breast cancer.


People on the Move: Stephanie Phelps

The Memphis Business Journal

Stephanie J. Phelps, PharmD, has been awarded the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Education Award. The award honors an ACCP member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the undergraduate or the postgraduate level.


UTHSC Names Chair of Neurology Department

The Daily News

Dr. Andrei V. Alexandrov has been appointed chair of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Neurology and a Semmes-Murphey professor. Alexandrov had been a professor of in the neurology department and director of the Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Alexandrov will begin his work at UTHSC in March.


Medicaid crosses difficult political territory

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It’s difficult to calculate the economic payoff to the state from offering insurance to the needy, said Teresa Waters, a professor and preventative medicine expert at the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center. But, she adds, “You cannot argue that the uninsured have the same access to care that insured populations have.” In states that… Read More


UTHSC Professor Dr. Teresa Waters Quoted in The Tennessean

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It’s difficult to calculate the economic payoff to the state from offering insurance to the needy, said Teresa Waters, a professor and preventative medicine expert at the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center.


Dr. Krukowski Quoted in Weight Loss Article

The Commercial Appeal

Becca Krukowski, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC, is quoted in “Weight Loss Roads Less Traveled By,” on page 21 of The Commercial Appeal’s Good Health magazine.


UTHSC Student Wins American Pharmacists Association Scholarship

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The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation has announced the winners of its 2014 Student Scholarship Program that recognizes students’ involvement in their school’s APhA-ASP chapter. This year recipients [include] … Susan Dickey, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy …


UTHSC Appoints Chair of Radiation Oncology

The Daily News

Dr. Matthew T. Ballo has been named chair of the newly formed Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.