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UTHSC graduating 860 students in Spring 2023 commencement

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860 graduates will walk across the stage at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s (UTHSC) Spring 2023 commencement. Degrees will be awarded to 860 graduates, including 129 from the College of Health Professions, 166 from the College of Medicine, 178 from the College of Pharmacy, 71 from the College of Nursing, 29 from the… Read More


Gamma tile therapy comes to Memphis

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Ballo and local medical professionals such as Dr. L. Madison Michael II, neurosurgeon at Semmes Murphey and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, worked for years to bring this technology to Memphis. The therapy has been used in other medical facilities with great success and dramatically improves quality of life… Read More


Methodist Transplant Institute is focusing on harder-to-place organs

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Vanatta, who’s the endowed chair for Excellence in Liver Transplantation at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, said reasons a liver could be deemed harder to place include fat in the liver, an injury to the liver from a trauma or blood vessels that are smaller or contain calcium deposits.


A Doctor Published Several Research Papers With Breakneck Speed. ChatGPT Wrote Them All.

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A lightbulb went off in Som Biswas’ head the first time he learned about ChatGPT. A radiologist at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Biswas came across an article about OpenAI’s chatbot on the web when it was released in November 2022. While the world at large was still coming to terms with the… Read More


UTHSC College of Pharmacy Professor chaired the International Conference

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Santosh Kumar, PhD, Professor and Assistant Dean of UTHSC College of Pharmacy coordinated Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology 27th Annual Scientific Conference in New Delhi, India. Dr. Kumar is the 2023 president of the society.


Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital names 1st neuroscience chair recipient

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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital’s Chief of Pediatric Neurology and Co-Director of the Neuroscience Institute James Wheless, MD, was recently named the first recipient of the Tom Horton and Donna Wiener Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, thanks to a transformational gift from the Martha, Bowen and Tommy Horton Family and Joy Wiener. Wheless is also professor and… Read More


NIH-funded Scientists to Discuss New Human “Pangenome” Reference

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Researchers from the National Institutes of Health-funded Human Pangenome Reference Consortium will answer questions about a set of papers to be published in the Nature Portfolio journals and Genome Research. The papers and the briefing are under embargo until May 10, 2023, at 11 a.m. E.T. Human Pangenome Reference Consortium researchers and paper authors who will be available for… Read More


2022 Super Women in Business: Necole Jones, Nancy Knous, Bacarra Mauldin, Colby Midgett, Cynthia Saatkamp

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Nancy Knous is CEO of Benchmark Wealth Management. She and the firm she founded are no strangers to MBJ praise: Just last year, she was a finalist for the Small Business Awards Executive of the Year, and her company won the Micro category of Best Places to Work. She also works as a professor of personal finance at the… Read More