Tag: David Schwartz

UTHSC Team’s COVID Data System Highlighted in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Journal

Written by Christopher Green

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Clinical CarePublic ServiceResearch

When COVID-19 hit the Mid-South in 2020, researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center quickly saw how Memphis was struggling to keep pace with the rapid advance of the pandemic. So, they got to work. In a report recently published in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, senior authors David Schwartz, MD, FACR,… Read More

UTHSC Researchers Publish First-of-Their-Kind Reports on Cancer Radiation Therapy Interruptions

Written by Christopher Green

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Research

Two new reports by researchers at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center provide the first published description of unplanned interruptions in radiation cancer treatment across a major U.S. city in the COVID-19 era, according to their authors. The studies placed special focus on how risk for radiotherapy interruption varied by patient race, socioeconomic status,… Read More