People: Alumni


2023 Graduate Health Sciences Magazine Highlights Success of Students, Faculty, Alumni

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The Spring 2023 issue of the College of Graduate Health Sciences Magazine showcases how the college provides a pathway to success for its students and scholars, offering opportunities to accomplish great things while studying and researching and setting them up for a successful and impactful career. Supporting Independence Learn how the college’s new Trainee Support… Read More


UTHSC Nursing Mobile Health Unit Unveiled

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Academic, political, and community leaders; nursing professionals; and students gathered today at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to celebrate the unveiling and ribbon cutting for the UTHSC Nursing Mobile Health unit, which will help expand health care in two rural West Tennessee counties. The ceremony in front of the Mooney Building in the… Read More


College of Med. African American Alumni Reunion Honors Dr. Beverly Williams-Cleaves, Raises Funds for Underrepresented Students in Medicine

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African American graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine recently gathered in Memphis for their second reunion weekend. The event brought together alumni from across the country to reconnect with classmates and friends, tour campus facilities, engage with College of Medicine leaders, support current and future students, and pay tribute… Read More


Spring 2023 Commencement a Family Affair for Many

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s 2023 spring commencement was a family celebration for the Price family. Madison Price received her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree at Monday’s ceremony at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Memphis, making her a fourth-generation UTHSC graduate. She is following in the footsteps of multiple family members:… Read More


UTHSC College of Nursing Honors Nurse Heroes at Seventh-Annual NightinGala

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Six local nurses received awards for excellence in the nursing profession at the seventh-annual NightinGala May 5, hosted by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing. More than 230 nurses and supporters attended the event, which launched the local celebration of National Nurses Week, May 6-12. “I am proud that nursing has… Read More


UTHSC Advisory Board to Meet May 12 in Memphis

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Advisory Board will meet Friday, May 12, at 10 a.m., in the Mooney Library, 875 Monroe Ave., on the Memphis campus. On the agenda: The Chancellor’s report FY 2024 Budget and Revised Tuition Proposal Strategic Plan Proposal While the meeting will be conducted in person, it will also… Read More


Toward Our Statewide Mission, UTHSC Welcomes Two New Vice Chancellors

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For Brigitte Grant, the new vice chancellor for Advancement at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, moving to Memphis has been in some ways a homecoming. Her grandmother, Fanny Higgins grew up in Memphis, where she met and married her grandfather, Jack Oetzel, who was in the Navy in Millington. They moved to Central… Read More


Physician Assistant Program at UTHSC No. 1 in Tennessee, No. 46 in Nation

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The Physician Assistant (PA) Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is ranked No. 1 in Tennessee and No. 46 in the country, according to the U. S. News & World Report 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools ranking released Tuesday. The UTHSC Physician Assistant Program accepted its first cohort in 2014 and achieved a… Read More