Lawrence Pfeffer, PhD, Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, recently was awarded $2.56 million from the National Cancer Institute over the next five years to identify and target molecular pathways that will enhance glioblastoma’s sensitivity to currently approved drug therapies. Dr. Pfeffer has spent the better part of 20… Read More
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health has appointed Jensen Hyde, MD, as chief medical officer, making her the first female CMO in the system’s 130-year history. Dr. Hyde, a board-certified internal medicine physician, is the former chief medical quality officer for Erlanger Medical Group and hospitalist. She is also the associate program director within the department of internal medicine at… Read More
The University of Tennessee Medical Center has named Robert Craft, MD, as senior vice president and chief academic officer, effective Aug. 1. He will also serve as the fifth dean of the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Dr. Craft has served in the same positions on an interim basis since October and will continue to… Read More
One of those attendees was Dr. Altha Stewart, the senior associate dean for Community Health Engagement at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and the director for Youth Advocacy and Well-Being. “The pipeline into the justice system is filled with kids who wanted to do better, they just didn’t know how,” said Dr. Stewart.… Read More
Medical student Jon Pat “JP” Ransom is pursuing pediatrics and pediatric oncology research, because his younger sister died of neuroblastoma. Motivated to help others because of his own experience, he is a stellar example of the caliber of students the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) attracts, educates, and trains to care for the people of… Read More
Located in the state’s southwestern portion on the high Chickasaw bluffs above the Mississippi River, Memphis is the state’s second-most populous and the American Southeast’s fifth-most populous city. Memphis houses many reputed higher-level education institutions, including the University of Memphis, Christian Brothers University, LeMoyne-Owen College, Rhodes College, Baptist College of Health Sciences, Southwest Tennessee Community College,… Read More
The Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, along with leaders of the UT System Communications and Marketing Office, received top honors from national and Tennessee public relations competitions for the planning, execution and promotion of last fall’s “Everywhere You Look, UTHSC” tour, a statewide tour to emphasize UTHSC’s presence… Read More
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two grants from the National Institutes of Health. One, for $500,500, is for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for a project entitled “Mechanisms of Sonic Hedgehog Signal Transduction” from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The second, for $423,500, is for research on periodontal ligament regeneration, from the… Read More
