Introduced Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Act Involves UTHSC
|Representative G.K. Butterfield, Jr., a democratic congressman from North Carolina, has introduced the National Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury (PABI) Act of 2009 on Capitol Hill.
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Burt M. Sharp, MD, Receives More Than $2.5 Million Grant
|Burt Sharp, MD, Van Vleet Chair of Excellence, and colleagues have been awarded $2,546,000 to identify how genes expressed in the brain make adolescents vulnerable to the addictive effects of nicotine.
Gabor J. Tigyi Awarded More Than $2.3 Million for Drug Discovery Study
|Gabor J. Tigyi, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UTHSC, has been awarded $2,321,862 to study preclinical development of a new drug that protects from radiation injury.
College of Medicine Recognizes Excellence with the 2009 Alumni Awards
|The College of Medicine honors four alumni as having made distinguished contributions: Drs. Henry Cheairs Farrar, James Netterville, T. David Sisk (posthumously) and O. Douglas Wilson.
Mitchell Watsky Named Associate Dean for Graduate Health Sciences
|Mitchell Watsky, PhD, has been named the associate dean for Graduate Health Sciences in the College of Medicine, Memphis campus.
Memphis BioImaging Symposium Draws Internationally Recognized Experts
|World-renowned experts in the major fields of medical imaging will gather at the at the University of Memphis for the Sixth Annual Memphis BioImaging Symposium (MemBIS) on Thursday, Nov. 5, and Friday, Nov. 6.
J. Lacey Smith, MD, Named Interim Dean for the College of Medicine
|J. Schwab, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), announced the appointment of J. Lacey Smith, MD, as interim dean for the College of Medicine, Memphis campus.
Dr. Pat Wall Steps Down as Chancellor, Dr. Steve Schwab Named Interim
|Hershel P. Wall, MD, chancellor of UTHSC, announced plans today to step down from his position on September 30. Steve J. Schwab, MD, was named UTHSC interim chancellor by UT Interim President Jan Simek.