More than two-thirds of Tennessee’s high school seniors, or 66.7% can now go to any UT campus free of tuition and fees! That’s the message we have been delivering across the state at 15 different high schools across the state, from Bristol to Memphis, from Martin to Chattanooga. The “UT Promise 4.0” tour gives us… Read More
Free food?? Free food for the next 4 Thursdays!! Sign up now for Serving the Underserved and get fed!
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 still available, 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.
You are invited to the Dress for Success Memphis Power Walk sponsored by the Women’s Resource Group and Human Resources.
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!
Drs. Theodore Cory and Santosh Kumar are enrolling African American women for a research project “Isolation of Blood from Healthy Control Donors”, to find out how the immune system
responds to infection with infectious diseases.
Subjects must be between the ages of 18-50, and generally healthy. Subjects must not be heavy alcohol users, use illicit substances, have liver damage, have HIV, the human papillomavirus (HPV), or be pregnant.
Subjects will be asked to provide 4 tablespoons of blood in one blood draw and will be compensated $25.
Please contact Dr. Theodore Cory at tcory1@uthsc.edu, or 901-448-7216.
UTHSC Campus Police, in partnership with several law enforcement entities and faith-based organizations, invite you to celebrate the Faith & Blue initiative with three events:
On Friday, October 6th, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., in Health Sciences Park, at Madison Avenue and S. Dunlap Street. officers along with faith-based organizations will be providing meals and distributing personal items to those in need.
Saturday, October 7th, at 9 a.m. a free Zumba class will be held in the Health Science Park under the pavilion. Immediately following from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Faith and Blue Field Day events will begin. This event will consist of law enforcement agencies and faith-based organizations uniting to provide games, food, and activities for the community.
The Faith & Blue Church in the Park will take place on Sunday, October 8th, from 9 a.m. to noon, in Health Sciences Park. This event will feature a church service and lunch will be provided afterward.
We hope to see you in attendance. Please contact Shanika Mays at 901.448.6450 for more information.
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
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
