Publisher: Tennessee Tribune


UTHSC Team Receives $2.85 Million For Research Project On Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease

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A UTHSC research team has been awarded $2.85 million from the National Institute on Aging for a project that will deepen understanding of how mitochondria influence the aging process and age-related diseases.


Memphis Grizzlies Honor UTHSC’s Dr. Orpheus Triplett With HBCU Empowerment Award

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The Memphis Grizzlies will honor Dr. Orpheus Triplett, DDS, assistant dean of Community Oral Health and Outreach in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Dentistry, with its HBCU Empowerment Award during the game on February 28.


Sally Badoud Named Vice Chancellor for Communications and Marketing at UTHSC

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Sally Badoud has been named the vice chancellor for communications and marketing at UTHSC. She is shown here at the UT Board of Trustees meeting that was held in Memphis in June. Sally Badoud, MBA, has been named vice chancellor for the Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.… Read More


UTHSC’s Madlock-Brown Participating in National COVID Data Research Collaborative

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One of UTHSC’s data scientists is applying her extensive expertise in informatics to a national effort to leverage big data in the fight against COVID-19. Charisse Madlock-Brown, PhD, MLS, a faculty member in Health Informatics and Information Management at UTHSC, is a co-lead for one of the clinical domain teams of the National COVID Cohort… Read More


COVID-19 Lays Bare Health, Economic Neglect

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“The coronavirus does not discriminate.” I’ve heard some variation of that assertion made many times since the first case of COVID-19 appeared in Tennessee early March.  


UTHSC Graduates 135 Health Care Professionals in Winter Commencement

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MEMPHIS, TN — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduated 135 new health care professionals during its winter commencement on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. in the Cook Convention Center Grand Ballroom, 255 North Main Street.


Dr. Alvin Crawford, UTHSC Alumnus, Offers Advice to Students

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In 1964, Dr. Crawford was the fi rst African American to enroll at and graduate from UT’s med school in Memphis.In 1964, Dr. Crawford was the first African American to enroll at and graduate from UT’s med school in Memphis.