Publisher: Memphis Medical News


Memphis Doctors’ Vaccine to be Used in Canadian Clinical Trial

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StreptAnova was invented by James B. Dale, MD, Chief of the Division of Infectious Disease, and Gene H. Stollerman, MD, Endowed Professor in Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Research Scientist at the Memphis Veterans Affairs Medical Center.


West Cancer Center Receives Multi-Million Dollar Gift from Moores

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West Cancer Center has received what officials call “a significant gift” from Jack and Betty Moore to The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research, the fundraising arm of West Cancer Center.


UTHSC’s Michio Kurosu Receives $431,000 Grant from NIH

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Michio Kurosu, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,  has received a grant totaling $431,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.


Dean of UTHSC College of Pharmacy Honored by Pharmaceutical Association

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Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH, MBA, FCCP, FASHP, dean and professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has received the Chauncey I. Cooper Award from the National Pharmaceutical Association (NPhA).


Hill Points Out Need for More Geriatric Psychiatrists

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After some 22 years in private practice, including 18 with Memphis Psychiatry Group, Hill now is teaching full-time at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), where he did his internship and where he has maintained an affiliation throughout his career. He is one of a small number of geriatric psychiatrists in the Memphis… Read More


Frederick Boop Continues to Unravel Secrets in a Three-Pound Universe

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Boop is on staff at the Semmes Murphey Clinic PC, a professor and chair of neurosurgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and chief of pediatric neurosurgery at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.


R. Lebron Cooper Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology at UTHSC

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Lebron Cooper, MD, has been named chair for the Department of Anesthesiology at UTHSC.


UTHSC Announces Six Grant Awards Totaling $402,000

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The UT Institute for Research, Innovation, Synergy and Health Equity at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has announced the latest round of grant recipients from its Pilot Translational and Clinical Studies (PTCS) Program.