James King, MD, currently a volunteer faculty member and a 1982 graduate of UTHSC, has been chosen president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). The AAFP represents more than 94,000 physicians and medical students nationwide.

Effective September 23, 2006, UTHSC officials were notified by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) they have been awarded a nearly $185,000, one-year planning process for the development of a new Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC).

Demonstrating the breadth of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s strength in health care, five UTHSC professors emerged as winners of the Memphis Business Journal’s Annual Health Care Heroes Awards.

Researchers at the UTHSC Department of Preventive Medicine want to enroll 600 participants, male and female, between the ages 18 to 75, in a research study to help prevent weight gain and control blood pressure in hypertensive smokers.

What are the factors that cause certain people to develop diabetes and others, with the same background, to remain healthy? Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, UTHSC professor of medicine, intends to answer that question thanks to a $2.9 million grant.

Effective June 30, Frank A. DiBianca, PhD, will step down from his position as dean of the College of Health Science Engineering at UTHSC to focus on his research and teaching.

A nationwide search culminated in the appointment of Steve J. Schwab, MD, as the first executive dean of the UTHSC College of Medicine campuses. Reporting directly to the chancellor, Dr. Schwab will assume his role in late July.

Gerald Byrne, PhD, professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine, has been awarded a nearly $2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant.