When Dr. Steven Goodman, vice chancellor for research at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, arrived at the college more than two years ago, his ambition was to launch a statewide clinical trials network. That idea has now become a reality, with the creation of the Clinical Trials Network of Tennessee that’s operating as… Read More
Dr. Colleen Jonsson, director of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, will be taking her work in infectious disease research to a new level as director of a new institute at UTHSC. The Institute for the Study of Host-Pathogen Systems will include collecting infectious disease research among a group… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has launched a new Center for Sickle Cell Disease in the College of Medicine and tapped a leader for it who will come on board in July.
The College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, in collaboration with Regional One Health, has been awarded a $16,000 grant to train area nurses to handle and diffuse crisis situations in hospitals and other health care settings.
A research team from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has published a study that found black children are more than twice as likely to die after surgery than white children. The team zeroed in on those findings after developing race-specific models to predict surgical outcomes. Their study is… Read More
A research team from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital has published a study that found black children are more than twice as likely to die after surgery than white children.
For Dr. David Stern of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, his interest in proposing a new pilot program to benefit those with mental health and substance use problems comes from a deeply personal as well as professional place.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center will become a tobacco- and smoke-free campus effective Jan. 1.
