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UTHSC Chancellor Emphasizes the Transformative Power of Philanthropic Gifts

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Great academic health care institutions are built on the availability of philanthropy to advance their mission through a sustained combination of support from grateful patients and grateful alumni, proud employees, and community leaders who are inspired by clinical excellence, innovative programs, and research.
Peter Buckley, MD, our new chancellor … Read More


UTHSC College of Nursing Receives $377,000 to Offer COVID Vaccine Education in Rural Counties

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With $377,000 from the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability (TCAD), faculty and staff in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing are on the ground three days a week in six rural West Tennessee counties, offering education on the COVID vaccine to residents. “We will meet with various organizations within the… Read More


Scholarship in College of Nursing Honors Alumna and Faculty Member Who Passed Away Recently

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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Nursing is establishing an endowed scholarship to honor the memory of Assistant Professor Melody Waller, PhD, RN, a rising nurse leader who passed away February 6. Dr. Waller, 43, was recently appointed as director of the college’s Dr. Margaret A. Newman Center for Nursing Theory. The… Read More


Chancellor Peter Buckley to Deliver Inaugural Address February 22

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Peter Buckley, MD, the new chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, will deliver his Inaugural Address via Zoom to faculty, staff, students, the media, and the public on Tuesday, February 22, at 12 p.m. CST. Dr. Buckley, whose first official day at UTHSC was February 7, will share his early vision for… Read More


UTHSC College of Dentistry Resumes Give Kids A Smile Day For Local Students After One-Year Hiatus

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  After a year interrupted by COVID, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry will be filling cavities and offering other free dental care to middle-school students from Freedom Preparatory Academy, as part of the American Dental Association’s Give Kids A Smile Day (GKAS), on February 24. Approximately 90 children are scheduled… Read More


UTHSC, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Hold One of Most Diverse Biorepositories in Nation

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Memphis, a city where 64% of the population is Black, now has one of the largest genetic databases of people with African ancestry in the United States. This winter, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, in collaboration with the Regeneron Genetics Center, sequenced the DNA of… Read More


UTHSC Center on Developmental Disabilities Helps Children ‘Be the Best They Can Be’

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Jayme Wasson began noticing that her daughter, Lilly, then 18 months old, was losing words and exhibiting behaviors that were a little different. “Our daughter wasn’t talking, and we really had no way of communicating, which was frustrating for her and frustrating for us,” Wasson says. “It broke our hearts.” A nurse at Le Bonheur… Read More


UTHSC Researchers Test New, Safer Fixative for Tissue Samples

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Faculty and student researchers from the Department of Diagnostic and Health Sciences in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Health Professions are researching safer alternatives to current methods of performing a laboratory process critical in the preservation, analysis and diagnosis of tissue samples. Their findings were recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal… Read More