The Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) seeks 200 minority participants for a study on aspirin.

James Dale, MD, Gene H. Stollerman Professor of Medicine and chief, Division of Infectious Diseases at UTHSC, has received a grant for $315,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a subsidiary of NIH.

Steve Schwab, MD, chancellor for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has announced the appointment of Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, FASHP, as the next dean for the College of Pharmacy at UTHSC.

Teresa Waters, PhD, associate professor of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC,has been awarded a grant totaling $793,056 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

As part of this year’s historic 100-year celebration of UTHSC, the UT College of Medicine (COM) 2011 Outstanding Alumni awards event will celebrate the history and future of medicine.

This year, Wafa Khasawneh, a doctoral nursing student at the UTHSC, is one of six individuals nationwide to receive a three- to five-year doctoral fellowship award from the Southern Regional Education Board.

The Department of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has released a new iPhone App to help smokers break the smoking habit permanently.

On Friday, May 27, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduate 615 health care professionals, marking its centennial commencement.