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
Findings from the first-ever prospective trial including a randomized pathway comparing surgery to non-surgical treatment of malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) provide important evidence to help inform clinical decision-making in managing this frequent complication in patients with advanced cancer.
DDS, Rosenthal’s organization, holds an annual one-day symposium every August at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center for students age 14 to 18 and holds a much longer program for that same age group as well as children age 2 to 5, from January to June. Neither program is required to attend the other, there is… Read More
