Many of you have heard about “Serving the Underserved” already – maybe from upper-class students or at orientation or from other faculty and staff. Serving The Underserved is a certificate course offered by Methodist Healthcare, Church Health, and UTHSC that creates space for productive dialogue about healthcare among underserved populations and how poverty affects the health lives of communities. Classes will be held at Church Health in the Crosstown Concourse from 6-8 PM on 4 consecutive Thursday evenings, September 28, October 5, 12, and 19. We have an exciting and engaging slate of speakers lined up! Spaces are limited, so register today via this form: https://forms.office.com/r/FUCdrtJqPy. Childcare is provided for those who need it.
Serving The Underserved is a core component of the Co-Curricular Certificate in Social Determinants of Health offered by UTHSC. However, you do not have to be working toward the SDOH certificate to participate.
The Office of Research will host its annual Research Resource Fair on Thursday, September 28, 2023 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm in the Madison Plaza Lobby. The event connects faculty, staff, and students to important resources that can help them succeed in research endeavors at UTHSC.
Edward Chaum, MD, PhD; Professor of Ophthalmology, Vanderbilt Eye Institute; “Applied Materials and Biomedical Engineering in Ophthalmology: Past, Present and Future”
Thursday, September 28, 2023
6:00 PM – Reception; 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM – Lecture
UTHSC – Hamilton Eye Institute – Freeman Auditorium
Saturday, September 30, 2023
7:30 AM – 3:30 PM (breakfast and lunch will be provided)
UTHSC – Mooney Building, Library, Room 201
875 Monroe Avenue; Memphis, TN
Dr. Jim Adelman will present “Understanding host competence in a wild song: potential mechanisms and consequences for disease dynamics”. This seminar focuses on host competence, or the propensity of one organism to transfer parasites/pathogens to another. To answer questions about host competence, my lab uses captive studies of house finches experimentally infected with their recently emerged bacterial pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum–a tractable model of infectious disease dynamics after pathogens jump into a new host species. Specifically, we have been investigating heterogeneity in susceptibility (the probability of infection given exposure), the evolution of infection tolerance (minimizing fitness losses during infection), and the consequences of these host traits for pathogen transmission. Please join & learn more!
