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Two New Chairs Appointed in the College of Medicine at UTHSC

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      Alex Dopico, MD, PhD, and Michael Whitt, PhD David Stern, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has appointed new chairs to lead two departments in the college.


Dr. Marie Chisholm-Burns, Dean of the UTHSC College of Pharmacy, Wins National Award for Sustained Contributions to Biomedical Literature

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Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MBA, MPH, FCCP, FASHP, dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), is the recipient of the 2013 Literature Award for Sustained Contributions given by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) Research and Education Foundation. The award honors important contributions by pharmacists to biomedical… Read More


The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Raises More Than $3,500 for Pacific Typhoon Relief Efforts

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) raised $3,569.05  to aid the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which slammed into the eastern Philippines on November 8. Morning and afternoon fund drives were held on the campus on November 13, with students, faculty, staff, members of the local health care community and the public contributing. Physical… Read More


Benny Weksler, MD, Named Eastridge-Cole Professor and Chief for Division of Thoracic Surgery at UTHSC and Chief of Thoracic Surgery for UT Methodist Physicians

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David M. Stern, MD, executive dean for the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has named Benny Weksler, MBA, MD, FACS, as the first Eastridge-Cole Professor and chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at UTHSC. Dr. Weksler will also serve as chief of Thoracic Surgery for UT Methodist… Read More


Gary Shorb of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Meets with African-American Medical Students to Award $50,000 in Scholarships

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Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare President & CEO Gary Shorb (center, back row) and UTHSC College of Medicine Executive Dean David Stern (far right) recently met with four of the five African-American medical students who were awarded the first Dr. Ed Reed Scholarships. From left, Pat Matthews Juarez, PhD, and Paul Juarez, PhD, two UTHSC professors… Read More


Professor Samuel Dagogo-Jack of UTHSC Receives $3.1 Million Grant to Continue Prediabetes Research

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Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FRCP, who directs both the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and the Clinical Research Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received a major grant to continue his study of prediabetes. Those with prediabetes, a condition involving higher-than-normal blood sugar levels, progress to diabetes at a rate… Read More


UTHSC Assistant Professor Writes Book on Bringing Up Baby the Old-Fashioned Way in a Modern World

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While working in the county schools system in the late ’90s, occupational therapist Anne Zachry noticed she was seeing a lot of young students who had trouble controlling the muscles of their arms and hands well enough to write legibly. A trained researcher, she started investigating, and the end result is her new book, “Retro… Read More


Associate Professor Marko Radic of The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Authors Paper on Immune System Disorders

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Dr Radic

About one person in 20 develops an autoimmune disorder. These range from rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, or multiple sclerosis, to other progressive autoimmune syndromes. A number of neurodegenerative and age-related disorders, as well as other chronic inflammatory afflictions, also have an underlying immune contribution.