Peter Buckley, MD, chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, will deliver his State of the University presentation Wednesday, February 21, at 11 a.m. CST, on the Memphis campus in the Mooney Library, Room 201.
The theme of the presentation is “Tennessee is Our Campus,” emphasizing UT Health Science Center’s statewide presence and impact. The university trains the majority of the health care workforce for Tennessee and provides care through faculty physicians and other health care professionals and more than 1,400 residents at partner hospitals across Tennessee.
UT Health Science Center’s main campus is in Memphis, where it has longtime clinical and educational partnerships with hospitals, including Regional One Health, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center (formerly the Memphis Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Baptist Memorial Healthcare, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, and St. Francis Hospital, as well as multiple specialty clinics, physician practice groups, community, and public health programs. The university also has campuses in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, with clinical and educational partnerships at major hospitals, including Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, and West Tennessee Healthcare – Jackson Madison County Hospital in Jackson, as well as more than 880 clinical and educational training sites in communities across Tennessee, all supported through strategic partnerships.
The presentation will be live streamed. For those who cannot watch the live event, a recording will be available after the presentation on the Messages from the Chancellor web page.