“Whether it be simulation through Disney, whether it be simulation through NASA … we often say [Orlando] is probably the best-kept secret out there,” said Jarrod Young, one of the meeting’s planning team co-chairs and director of operations technology and business development at the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation at the University of… Read More
Dr. Altha Stewart, director of the UTHSC Center for Youth Advocacy and Wellbeing, recently pushed a presenter during a meeting to change his language, saying “we do not call them juveniles.” In that statement, Dr. Stewart offered the presenter an opportunity to not only change their language, but ultimately to change their thinking.
On Wednesday, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced a $512,103 grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to study the role of sensory receptors in Angelman Syndrome, a rare neurological disease affecting balance, motor impairment and seizures.
In FY 2022, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) scored a record $132.9 million in grant and contract awards, a $6.3 million increase from the $126.7 million it earned in FY 2021. It was the sixth-straight year UTHSC had seen growth in grant and contract awards, and it represented a 56% jump from the… Read More
Whatever happens around the world, scientists say, COVID is here to stay. “My prediction is that cases (of COVID) will kind of wax and wane like what happened last year. The question is what comes after XBB.1.5,” said Shirin Mazumder, associate professor at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, where she teaches… Read More
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Knox County Health Department on Thursday announced its new public health officer. Dr. Megan Edwards, a University of Tennessee alumna, will start in March. The health department says Dr. Edwards is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and received her doctorate at East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine. She… Read More
“They would like to major in nursing and they don’t have a pathway. Until now. We do now. We have a pathway,” said Charlie Folsom Jr., the Student Affairs Admission Manager at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Students at Lane College will now have the chance to receive an education in the nursing field. Lane… Read More
When MBJ first spoke to Mark Myers in February 2022, he said the “ever-living hamster wheel” of work had taken up most of his weekend. Because Myers is still an assistant professor of anatomy and neurobiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). He’s still an adjunct professor at Christian Brothers University (CBU). He’s still… Read More
