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Area Health Care Leaders Team Up to Form New Academic Physician Practice Group

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Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, UT Health Science Center, and UT Medical Group Create UT Methodist Physicians Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 30, 2013) – Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has partnered with UT Medical Group, Inc. (UTMG) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to create a new academic physician practice group that will enhance the… Read More


UTHSC College of Nursing Instructor Named Among 2013 Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars

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Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 15, 2013) – Melody Norris Waller, MSN, RN, an instructor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was chosen one of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future Fall 2013 Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars.


Researcher, Clinician and Professor Samuel Dagogo-Jack of The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Honored as Physician of the Year by National Medical Association

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Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 19, 2013) – Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACE, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been selected as the Internal Medicine Section Physician of the Year by the National Medical Association. In late July, he… Read More


UTHSC Officially Names First Dermatology Department the Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology

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Rex Amonette, MD, and Robert Kaplan, MD Memphis, Tenn. (July 30, 2013) — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Dermatology Department in the College of Medicine has been officially named the Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology, in honor of Robert Kaplan, MD, and Rex Amonette, MD. Drs. Kaplan and Amonette, both UTHSC dermatology alumni,… Read More


Preventive Medicine Researcher at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Co-Authors Abstract on Interaction of Calcium & Vitamin D with Hormone Therapy

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Memphis, Tenn. (June 26, 2013) – Can taking calcium and vitamin D help prevent bone fractures among women taking postmenopausal hormone therapy? That’s the question that researchers and more than 60,000 women have tried to answer through a Women’s Health Initiative study. Over more than 19 years, postmenopausal participants aged 50 to 79 years enrolled… Read More


Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Donates $250,000 to The University of Tennessee Health Science Center for Medical Student Scholarship Fund Named for First Black Surgeon General in Memphis

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Dr. Ed Reed Blazed Trail for Integration in Memphis Hospitals Memphis, Tenn. (June 21, 2013) – Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has donated $250,000 to create the Dr. Ed Reed Scholarship Fund at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine.  The scholarship fund is named in special memory of the late Ed Reed,… Read More


UTHSC Joins Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital To Fight Childhood Obesity

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Memphis, Tenn. (December 13, 2012) The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) is partnering with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital to launch a Center for Excellence in Pediatric Obesity. Jon McCullers, MD, unveiled the plans at the recent Let’s CHANGE Summit hosted by Healthy Memphis Common Table. Dr. McCullers was the keynote speaker. “To me,… Read More


Terreia Jones, PharmD, of UTHSC Receives $500,000 Grant for Brain Cancer Research

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Memphis, Tenn. (Oct. 23, 2012) – Glioblastoma, the most common type of malignant brain tumor, is a real killer. Most people die within the first two years of diagnosis regardless of the treatments used. With the help of a grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health, Terreia… Read More