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UT Health Sciences Advisory Board to Hold Fall Meeting Friday, Nov. 13

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The Link Building seen through one of the arches on the Quadrangle

The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Advisory Board will meet Friday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m., in the Mooney Library, 875 Monroe Ave., on the Memphis campus. On the agenda:  While the meeting will be conducted in person, it will also be available to view online. The webcast link, more information about the UT Health Sciences… Read More


Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center Marks 10 Years With Annual Art Auction

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Two healthcare providers work with a young child sitting on a big, blue ball-like piece of equipment in an occupational therapy clinic, with a quote from Rachel Kay Stevens and her photo in the background.

The Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy Center at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, the Memphis area’s only pro-bono pediatric occupational therapy center, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The center, staffed by students under the supervision of licensed occupational therapy practitioners, has served hundreds of families across the Mid-South. This week, the Rachel Kay Stevens Therapy… Read More


Research Fellowships Help Graduate Students Turn Promising Ideas Into Discovery

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Daniel Nnamani and Mona Kazemi Sabzvar

In the lab, promising results often lead to more questions than a researcher has the resources to answer. For Mona Kazemi Sabzvar, a doctoral student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, preliminary findings in her research on blood cancer pointed toward an additional avenue worth exploring. She had ideas for the experiments that could… Read More


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 Century of Growth: 100 Years of Dental Hygiene Education at UT Health Sciences

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Dental Hygienists in training

Established in 1926, the Dental Hygiene Program at what is now the UT Health Sciences College of Dentistry graduated its first class of just four students in 1928. Nearly a century later, the Class of 2026 added 24 graduates to a legacy that has grown to more than 2,300 dental hygiene professionals. As the program… 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