Tim Barton, director of Research Safety Affairs at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received the Patriot Award from the Office of the Secretary of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The award is given to supervisors and bosses for providing direct support to an employee who serves in… Read More
During Match Day 2022, 166 medical students from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center learned where they will spend the next three to seven years as resident physicians. Of those, 43% will be attending Tennessee-based residencies. Students gathered on the UTHSC campus in the Nash and Mooney buildings to celebrate their career placements… Read More
First-year medical student Hayden Hall stood in the breezy courtyard of UT Health Science Center’s Historic Quadrangle at noon Friday to be commissioned into the Air Force as part of the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). He was surrounded by a small group of classmates, several of whom are also members of the Health Professions… Read More
Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, FAST, dean of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Pharmacy, has received several prestigious honors recently. She is the recipient of the 2022 American Pharmacists Association Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) Outstanding Dean Award and the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP) Board of… Read More
For two decades, scientists have been able to identify the molecular signature of specific cancers by isolating the RNA, responsible for dictating which proteins are produced and, by extension, how the cells behave in the body. Now, Neil Hayes, MD, MS, MPH, director of the Center for Cancer Research at at the University of Tennessee… Read More
Storytelling is one of the earliest human art forms, and it still packs a punch even in our high-tech culture. The power of storytelling will be on full display at the inaugural Kaleidoscope Story Slam at 6:00 p.m., March 24, in the Schreier Auditorium of the Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison. Hosted by the University of… Read More
The first cohort of the Herbert Shainberg Scholars Program have officially arrived in Israel. Colbe Earles and Macy Cottrell are studying at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev during March as part of the new student exchange program that gives fourth-year students in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine an… Read More
Every year, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center produces hundreds of health care professionals ready to begin seeing patents. In their training, every one of them has practiced caring for people who are paid to act out specific roles or conditions. Simulated patients, or SPs, are adults, 18 and older, who portray common conditions… Read More
