The Tennessee Heart Health Network, an initiative of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue and expand its work to improve heart health across Tennessee over the next five years.
The state’s mainly rural geography—78 of its 95 counties are rural—suffers from a lack of health care opportunities. Since 2010, 13 of 16 hospital closures in the state have been in rural areas. To reach people in those areas, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center launched a mobile health unit in June 2023 that can provide… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is in the midst of an expansion to bolster critical care for its most fragile patients, from the tiniest preemies to children who need life-saving heart surgeries. “If you look at where we’re seeing increased volume in need, it’s in that critical-care complex, so that’s why the hospital made the decision… Read More
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is attracting pediatric cardiologists and heart surgeons from across the United States to join the growing team at its Heart Institute. This past summer, Dr. David Nelson relocated to Memphis from Houston. He left Texas Children’s Hospital to serve as director of the pediatric cardiac critical care program and cardiovascular intensive… Read More
Now, as autumn creeps toward winter and the time change gifts us with less daylight, our minds and bodies begin to undergo a shift, says Dr. Ferrell Varner, an assistant professor in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center psychiatry department.
How big of an impact do your genes play in overall health and response to treatment? That’s the question East Tennessee State University’s Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Disease and Immunity (CIIDI) and the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center (UTHSC) set out to answer with their Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative.
Dwayne Accardo, an associate professor in the college of nursing at University of Tennessee Health Science Center and head of the nurse anesthesiology program, is riding for his third straight year, a pilgrimage he struggles to sum up and can’t imagine missing.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry opened two student clinical rotation sites. The clinic sites are in Crossville and Knoxville, Tenn., according to a Sept. 25 news release from the university.
