UTHSC News


Lions Support Low-Vision Service at UTHSC Hamilton Eye Institute

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The Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service, the Memphis Downtown Lions Club, and the Lions Club International Foundation have donated $150,000 to fund a Low-Vision Center at the UT Health Science Center Hamilton Eye Institute.


UTHSC Chancellor Search Committee to Meet

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The search committee for the position of chancellor of The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will meet today, Wednesday, August 8 at 3 p.m. in room 216 of the Hyman Administration Building, 62 South Dunlap.


UTHSC Collaborates with BlueCross on Blues Project

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UTHSC and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee have extended their collaboration on The Blues Project, a clinic- and home-based social intervention program, to positively affect health outcomes for at-risk mothers and their babies.


UTHSC Scientists Collaborate to Discover Key to Flesh-Eating Disease

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An international team of researchers have discovered an explanation for how a deadly strain of “flesh-eating” bacteria has evolved to produce serious human infections worldwide.


Interim Deans Named for Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences Colleges

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Hershel P. Wall, MD, interim chancellor for UTHSC, announced the appointment of interim deans Mark Patters, DDS, PhD, and Edward Schneider, PhD, for the colleges of Dentistry and Graduate Health Sciences, respectively.


Gabor Tigyi MD, PhD, Named Chairman of the Department of Physiology

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Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine for UTHSC, has announced the appointment of Gabor Tigyi, MD, PhD, as chairman for the Department of Physiology in the College of Medicine, Memphis.


Maness Named Chairman, Department of Family Medicine

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Steve J. Schwab, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has announced the appointment of David L. Maness, DO, MSS, FAAFP, as chairman for the Department of Family Medicine.


Mid-South Women Part of Women’s Health Initiative Study

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Results from a substudy of the WHI Estrogen-Alone Trial show that younger postmenopausal women taking estrogen-alone hormone therapy have less calcium plaque build-up in their arteries compared to their peers with no hormone therapy.