Category: Education

Darrylinn Todd Named Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services at UTHSC

Written by Amber Carter

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Education

Darrylinn Todd, EdD, has been named associate vice chancellor of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). In this role, she will provide executive leadership for and oversee several administrative units that provide centralized campus support activities and services to students, including the Offices of Admissions, Financial Aid,… Read More

Four Receive Outstanding College of Medicine Alumni Awards for 2018

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Education

Four UTHSC alumni members were selected to receive 2018 Outstanding Alumni Awards from the College of Medicine and the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. The Outstanding Alumni Awards Luncheon is part of the College of Medicine Alumni Weekend in September. The honorees are Paul Blaylock, MD, JD; Dennis Higdon, MD; Elijah Dudney, MD; and… Read More

G. Randall Watts Selected as Fellow For NLM-AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program

Written by Amber Carter

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Education

G. Randall Watts, MDiv, MS, AHIP, associate director and associate professor in the Health Sciences Library at UTHSC, has been selected as a 2018-2019 Fellow in the NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program. In this highly competitive program, Watts will be one of 10 Fellows and mentors from academic health sciences libraries across the United States, who… Read More

Campus Police to Host Crisis Management Training on August 31

Written by Amber Carter

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Education

UTHSC Campus Police will host a free workshop August 31 to train educators, administrators, and safety officers to deal with crisis situations and to safely reunite students with their parents and loved ones after a crisis is over. The Standard Response Protocol/Standard Reunification Method Train-the-Trainer Workshop, taught by John Michael Keyes, will take place at… Read More

Sarah Caldwell Receives $3,000 Scholarship From the Professional Network Network on Aging

Written by Amber Carter

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Education

For the second year in a row, a UTHSC occupational therapy (OT) student has been awarded a one time, $3,000 scholarship from the Professional Network on Aging, a community organization dedicated to assisting the geriatric population in Memphis. In addition to the scholarship, recipients also received a one-year membership to the organization. This year’s recipient,… Read More

Report Shows UTHSC Contributed $4 Billion to Tennessee’s Economy in FY 2017

Written by Peggy Reisser

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Clinical CareEducationPublic ServiceResearch

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center contributed approximately $4 billion to the Tennessee economy in Fiscal Year 2017, according to a new study designed to gauge the university’s total economic impact on the state. The 2017 Economic Impact Report was done by Cyril F. Chang, PhD, professor of economics at the Fogelman College of… Read More

UTHSC Hosts Health Care Simulation Professionals from Around the World At Technology Conference Today-August 3

Written by Amber Carter

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Education

More than 200 health care simulation professionals from around the world are at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center this week for the eighth-annual health care simulation technology conference planned by SimGHOSTS, an international nonprofit organization providing training, resources, and support for simulation technicians and those involved with health care simulation. The four-day conference,… Read More

Former Dermatology Chief and Professor Emeritus Dr. Elias Rosenberg Passes Away

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Education

Elias Rosenberg, MD, professor emeritus and former division chief of Dermatology in the UTHSC College of Medicine, passed away on July 21. He was recruited to UTHSC in 1962 to start the dermatology program and would go on to train more than 100 dermatology residents, as well as hundreds of medical students and residents of… Read More