The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing is establishing an endowed scholarship to honor the memory of Assistant Professor Melody Waller, PhD, RN, a rising nurse leader who passed away February 6. Dr. Waller, 43, was recently appointed as director of the college’s Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory. The… Read More
Peter Buckley, MD, the new chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, will deliver his Inaugural Address via Zoom to faculty, staff, students, the media, and the public on Tuesday, February 22, at 12 p.m. CST. Dr. Buckley, whose first official day at UTHSC was February 7, will share his early vision for… Read More
After a year interrupted by COVID, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry will be filling cavities and offering other free dental care to middle-school students from Freedom Preparatory Academy, as part of the American Dental Association’s Give Kids A Smile Day (GKAS), on February 24. Approximately 90 children are scheduled… Read More
Memphis, a city where 64% of the population is Black, now has one of the largest genetic databases of people with African ancestry in the United States. This winter, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center, sequenced the DNA of… Read More
Kennard Brown, JD, MPA, PhD, FACHE, executive vice chancellor and chief operations officer for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received statewide and local honors recently for his work to improve the university and the health and well-being of the citizens of Tennessee. Dr. Brown was honored Monday night by the Tennessee Legislature with… Read More
Sally Badoud, MBA, has been named vice chancellor for the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Badoud has served as assistant vice chancellor for communications and marketing since joining UTHSC in 2016. A creative and strategic leader, she has more than 20 years of experience in branding, communications,… Read More
Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP, professor and vice chair for academic affairs in the Department of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the oldest and most prominent honor societies for physician-scientists. Dr. Gosain is one of fewer than… Read More
Jayme Wasson began noticing that her daughter, Lilly, then 18 months old, was losing words and exhibiting behaviors that were a little different. “Our daughter wasn’t talking, and we really had no way of communicating, which was frustrating for her and frustrating for us,” Wasson says. “It broke our hearts.” A nurse at Le Bonheur… Read More
