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679 UT Health Sciences Students Meet Their Future ‘Teammates’ at IPE Day

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A student wearing a UT Doctors throwback T-shirt smiles at the camera while outside on a field with fellow students.

A total of 679 first-year students from all six colleges of the University of Tennessee Health Sciences took part in Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day last week. Of those, 602 swapped classroom seats for mixed teams on Doc’s Field, and 77 joined virtually. Future dentists, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, and other health professionals and scientists spent the… Read More


Designed for Impact

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Rendering of the College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building facing southwest from the corner of Madison and Dudley.

New College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building Will Change How Students Learn, Collaborate and Prepare to Serve Tennessee Before beginning the design, the project team imagined a student’s day. Where would a medical student gather with classmates? Where would students from different health professions work together? Where could someone study quietly, practice a procedure or step… Read More


More Than Athletes: How UT Health Sciences Is Preparing the Next Generation of Sports Pharmacists

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Health colleagues Tracy Hagemann and Brandi Binkley look at a big container of Vital Proteins in a room with exercise equipment.

More than 60% of U.S. adults used a dietary supplement in the past 30 days between August 2021 and August 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, many of them sorting through claims pushed by TikTok influencers, trendy wellness products and performance enhancers that often reach the market without FDA approval. To… Read More


A Full Circle Journey: From Residency to Faculty

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Dr. Chace Hicks and fellow residents in UT Health Sciences scrubs sit together on a couch at work.

The first time Chace Hicks, MD, came to Chattanooga, he was looking for a place to learn. A few years later, he’s walking through the same halls he once trained. This time, as faculty. After completing his general surgery residency training following medical school in 2025 at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences College of… Read More


College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building Groundbreaking a Milestone for Healthcare Education in Tennessee

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Under a large tent on the future site of the College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, hundreds of university leaders, elected officials, community partners, alumni, students, faculty and staff gathered Thursday, Oct. 8, to mark a milestone years in the making: the groundbreaking of a $350 million building that… Read More


Pieces of History

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Jennifer Langford reaching for a book on a bookshelf.

Collections Preserve the History of Medicine in the Region Chapter 5 of “The American Plague,” the acclaimed 2006 book about the yellow fever epidemic that decimated Memphis in the 1870s, details the life, work, and death of Dr. William James Armstrong as he attempted to care for the stricken. The young doctor, described as “gentle,… Read More


College of Pharmacy Fulbright Scholar Builds Global Partnerships for Education, Drug Discovery

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Dr. Michio Kurosu holds his camera by the Nile River.

When Michio Kurosu, PhD, returned to Memphis after completing his Fulbright appointment in Egypt, he brought home more than memories of a year abroad. As the first U.S. Fulbright Scholar to reside in Sinai, Egypt, where he served his appointment at King Salman International University (KSIU) on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, he helped strengthen a developing… Read More


Embodying the Volunteer Spirit in Tennessee’s Poorest Zip Code

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Attorney Dell Steiner poses with her arm around Sharon Valente, PhD, who's in a Memphis Redbirds jersey, at a mobile food pantry in the parking lot.

By 7 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month, the parking lot across from St. Patrick Catholic Church is already moving. Volunteers line up pallets, a DJ sets up speakers and cars begin turning onto Martin Luther King Avenue before the food boxes are done being packed. Eugene Mangiante, MD, has been part of… Read More