Tag: Semmes Murphey


Tennessee’s First Brain Bee Comes to Memphis, Nurturing a New Generation of Neurologists

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A student and an adult listen to a professor in a white coat while she points to bright green, blue, and yellow images printed on large pieces of shiny paper laying on desks.

Last Saturday morning, 25 Shelby County high school students came to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center campus in Memphis to compete in the state’s first-ever Brain Bee. Not all arrived believing a career in medicine was possible. By day’s end, they could picture themselves as the person in the room who had the… Read More


New Chair of Neurosurgery Honors Longstanding Clinical Partnership, Sets Sights on Future Innovation

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Headshot of Dr. Paul Park

Paul Park, MD, a highly respected neurosurgeon specializing in spine surgery, minimally invasive techniques, complex spinal reconstruction, and degenerative conditions, has been named the J.T. Roberston Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Dr. Park completed his medical degree and neurosurgical residency at… Read More


Hae Won Shin, MD, Named Chair of Neurology and Semmes Murphey Professor

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Hae Won Shin, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Neurology and Semmes Murphey Professor of Excellence at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine. Dr. Shin recently joined UT Health Science Center from the University of New Mexico Health Science Center’s School of Medicine, where she served in the… Read More


Klimo Wins Pediatric Paper of the Year for the Second Year

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For the second year in a row, Paul Klimo, Jr. MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was awarded the Pediatrics Paper of the Year by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) during the CNS annual meeting in San Francisco, California. The paper, “The Preventable Shunt… Read More