William L. “Bill” Greene, PharmD, the chief pharmaceutical officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been selected by the Tennessee Pharmacists Association to receive the 2021 Shelby Rhinehart Public Service Lifetime Achievement Award, in recognition of his work and support of the pharmacy profession. The award was created in 2002 to recognize individual support… Read More
Influenza viruses cause a significant amount of morbidity and mortality. Understanding host immune control efficacy and how different factors influence lung injury and disease severity are critical. We established and validated dynamical connections between viral loads, infected cells, CD8+ T cells, lung injury, inflammation, and disease severity using an integrative mathematical model-experiment exchange.
As children return to summer camps and sports, getting them vaccinated it critical, says Dr. Jason Yaun, a representative of the Tennessee chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. “We stand behind the science…Vaccines are safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines save lives.”
On Thursday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris nominated Dr. Michelle Taylor as director of the health department. Taylor’s nomination goes before the Shelby County Board of Commissioners’ General Government Committee on Wednesday. If approved, the full commission will vote on her appointment on July 26. Taylor would replace Alisa Haushalter, who resigned in February after… Read More
Faculty members from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have led the development of PubSeq, a global digital data repository of COVID-19 RNA sequences. PubSeq is open to all interested individuals, primarily researchers working to understand the CoV-2 coronavirus and the pattern of spread of its numerous variants (including the Delta variant).
A planned emergency overflow hospital for COVID-19 patients in Memphis has been decommissioned without ever being used, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said Monday. The hospital was located in the 125,000-square-foot building at 495 Union Ave. formerly occupied by The Commercial Appeal newspaper offices. The building was renovated to make bed space for 402 COVID-19… Read More
Clarksville dentist Dr. K. Jean Beauchamp has been named president of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, the leading authority on children’s oral health. Beauchamp, a board-certified pediatric dentist, earned her D.D.S. from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. She then completed her pediatric residency also at UT in 1993.
After four months of interim leadership at Shelby County Health Department, on Thursday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris nominated Dr. Michelle Taylor to be the next director. Taylor holds a Doctor of Medicine from the James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University and a Master of Science-Epidemiology from University of Tennessee Health Science Center.… Read More
