The Supreme Court’s decision to rehear a Texas case about race and college admissions is being closely watched on campuses around the state, including the University of Tennessee Health Science Center where a vice chancellor says a diverse medical workforce is critical for addressing health disparities in the city and region.
Dr. Ramasubbareddy Dhanireddy, professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, lauds Yvonne Madlock upon her retirement from the Shelby County Health Department.
Likes, who earned her master’s, doctor of nursing science and Ph.D. at UTHSC, served as interim dean for about 10 months. She leads a faculty and staff with 105 members and a college that serves about 400 students on the campus in Memphis’ Medical District.
Dr. Aaron Waite is director of Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Diseases at the Hamilton Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Studies show that “every time you’re able to take a surgeon that does open surgery and get them to do his surgeries with a robot, even with all the costs associated with the machine, the final cost to the hospital is actually less,” said Dr. Benny Weksler, chief of the thoracic division of the University… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will graduate 698 new health care professionals at not one, but six ceremonies beginning Friday and ending May 29, officials said.
A total of more than $4.6 million in new grants for research for scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will involve the weed killer Paraquat, rapid eye movement sleep and a disease that causes an unusual kind of internal tumors.
