Kimberly Williams MS, PhD(C) is enrolling African American and non-African American students for a research study “Exploring the Matriculation and Resource Utilization of African Americans with Hidden Disabilities in the Health Sciences” to understand your experiences of having as disability and being a student in the Health Sciences. Subjects must be 18 or older, enrolled in any of the colleges of UTHSC, and be of any race. Subjects will be asked to complete a brief demographic survey and do a 60-90 minute interview via Zoom or in person. At the completion of the interview, students will be compensated with a $25 Amazon e-gift card. Please contact Kimberly Williams at kwilli72@uthsc.edu or 901-448-1343.
In 2012, Shelley White-Means, PhD, read a study from the Sinai Urban Health Institute that reported Memphis had the largest disparity in deaths from breast cancer for Black women versus white women of any of the 25 largest cities in the United States. She had recently lost her mother to breast cancer, and she wanted… Read More
Please mark your calendars and join us in-person on Monday, February 26, 3:00pm in the Freeman Auditorium for a talk by Alvin H. Crawford, MD, FACS, Hon Causa GR, UC, Professor Emeritus, Pediatrics and Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine.
The NLM exhibit “The Literature of Prescription,” which looks at the impact and the medical knowledge of the day presented in “The Yellow Wallpaper” will run February 26 – April 6, on the second floor of the UTHSC Health Sciences Library and is sponsored by the Library’s Health Science Historical Collections.
Topic: “Host-diet-gut microbiome interactions influence human energy balance: a randomized clinical trial” Karen D. Corbin et al. Nat Comm (2023) PMID: 37258525
Date and Location: March 1st, 2024 | 3-4 PM CST | CRB 114
Any questions, feel free to contact mbohm@uthsc.edu
Snacks and drinks provided.
Coffee with a Cop brings police officers and the people they serve together over coffee to discuss issues and learn more about each other. There will be no speeches or specific topics, just informal conversations about what matters to students.
