Erlanger Medical Group announce the addition of Drs. Leahanne Giffin, Taylor Millirons and Hannah West to Erlanger Internal Medicine and Erlanger Primary Care. Dr. Giffin is a board-certified internal medicine physician with Erlanger Internal Medicine.
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education. The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis has received a four-year, $4 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to support… Read More
Regional One Health now has a dedicated space for students and residents from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. This comes as Shelby County’s public hospital and UTHSC inch closer to a partnership that would establish Regional One as an academic medical center affiliated with the university.
Research that provided much of the foundation for the development of CAR-T cell therapy, the first-generation cell therapy approach currently in clinical development, for lupus was funded in part by the Lupus Research Alliance (LRA) Lupus Innovation Award grant in 2014 to Marko Radic, Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Lupus Therapeutics, and… Read More
Dr. Christian Blake Bergeron, M.D., pediatrician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, says adults who have severe cases of HFMD may have just never contracted it as kids, so their immune system fighting it off for the first time.
Researchers in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have received a $423,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health for research aimed at reducing disease and mortality rates associated with Aspergillus infections by focusing on the molecular pathways in… Read More
Dr. Frederick Azar, Campbell Clinic’s chief of staff, has been elected to lead the board of directors at ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Azar is a professor and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship Program in the University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Biomedical Engineering.
The pediatric dental clinics associated with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) College of Dentistry are providing more than just dental care to children. They have partnered with the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation’s program, “A Book Just for Me,” to offer free books along with toothbrushes and toothpaste to all pediatric patients at… Read More
