Dr. Adebowale Adebiyi, assistant professor in the physiology department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health. The award, which will be distributed over a five-year period, will support a project… Read More
Dr. Jason Williams has joined the medical staff of Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association PC. Williams graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 2010. He recently completed his residency and was named co-recipient of the Outstanding Resident in Gynecology award.
That’s according to a study by researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center presented at a recent session of the American Heart Association. The study’s lead author, Mustafa Hussein, presented the research at the heart association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes Research 2014 Scientific Sessions in June, the same month he successfully defended his… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine has formed a new biomedical research department on the Memphis campus, the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics. Professor Robert W. Williams, the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Computational Genomics, will serve as founding chair.
Dean Noma Anderson says the time was right for a name change that more accurately captures the mission of the college, which was founded in 1972 and originally known as the College of Community and Allied Health.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded a $3.1 million contract to operate the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center and the Shelby County Medical Examiner’s Office.
S. Casey Laizure, a professor in the clinical pharmacy department at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy, has received a grant totaling $150,000 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Joan C. Han is coming to Memphis to be the founding director of the new UT-Le Bonheur Pediatric Obesity Center and to direct the new Le Bonheur Healthy Lifestyle Clinic. “A third of our kids are overweight or obese and that translates into two-thirds of our adults are overweight or obese in Tennessee,” said… Read More
