Longtime Memphian Fred C. Heros, DDS, has been selected as the 2012 UTHSC College of Dentistry Outstanding Alumnus. Dr. Heros will receive the award at the Alumni Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 2 at the Hilton Memphis.
Pediatric infectious disease researcher Jon McCullers, M.D., has been appointed the sixth chair of the Department of Pediatrics for UTHSC and pediatrician-in-chief for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Jonathan H. Jaggar, PhD, professor of Physiology at UTHSC, has been named to the Maury W. Bronstein Chair of Excellence in Cardiovascular Physiology in the UTHSC College of Medicine.
Carrie Plummer, MSN, ANP, a doctoral nursing student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received one of 15 national John A. Hartford Academic Geriatric Nursing pre-doctoral scholarships.
Gadiparthi Rao, PhD, professor of Physiology, has successfully renewed four grants from the NIH, bringing his current total to five R01 grants — the highest number held by one individual at UTHSC.
David M. Stern, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine and interim vice chancellor of Research at the UTHSC, has appointed Gerald Byrne, PhD, the full-time director of the UTHSC Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL).
The search committee charged with finding top candidates to fill the position of dean for the College of Nursing at UTHSC has selected three finalists. During the next few weeks, the finalists will visit the main UTHSC campus.
Safeco Insurance has donated $10,000 to help the Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology Child Hearing Services Program at the UTHSC continue its mission of treating hearing-impaired children.
