Two students and administrators from the Medical University of Sofia in Bulgaria come to campus. The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) welcomed dignitaries and two dental students from the Medical University of Sofia in Bulgaria in the first student exchange under a new Global Health Initiative. The… Read More
Providing families with diabetic children access via pager to a transport team improves outcomes and efficiency, according to a recent study performed at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). The study, “Real-time Support of Pediatric Diabetes Self-care by a Transport Team,” was reported online ahead of print in… Read More
Memphis, Tenn.(Sept. 10, 2013) – The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) opened a new state-of-the-art endodontics clinic in the Winfield C. Dunn Building at 875 Union Ave., on Friday, Sept. 6. The Dentsply Tulsa Endodontics Graduate Clinic, located on the north side of the fifth floor of the… Read More
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
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.
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
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
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