UTHSC announces the naming of two new vice chancellors to fulfill the academic health science center’s missions of community service and research.

UTHSC is offering high school seniors through undergraduate college students the opportunity to explore health careers by participating in its summer enrichment programs.

Calcium and vitamin D supplements in healthy postmenopausal women provide a modest benefit in preserving bone mass and prevent hip fractures in certain groups, according to the results of a major clinical trial.

Effective January 1, Peter A. Chyka, PharmD, was appointed associate dean of the College of Pharmacy’s Knoxville campus. Dick R. Gourley, PharmD, professor and dean of the UTHSC College of Pharmacy, announced the appointment.

Monica M. Jablonski, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at the UTHSC Hamilton Eye Institute, has been awarded a three-year $428,800 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to research retinal degeneration.

Ronald I. Shorr, MD, MS, associate professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC, and Patricia M. Flynn, MD, MS, professor at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, were recently awarded a $1.5 million grant.

UTHSC recently received a five-year $3.2 million grant as one of eight National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cooperative Research Centers. The grant will focus on hepatitis C.

As finalists in a field of outstanding Memphis area health care contributors, three University of Tennessee Health Science Center professors emerged as winners in the Memphis Business Journal’s annual Health Care Heroes Awards competition. Three others were recognized as finalists. Sheldon Korones, MD, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology in the College of… Read More