UTHSC In the Media


UTHSC to Offer Online Nursing Degree Programs

The Daily News

The Tennessee Board of Nursing has approved a proposal from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to offer a new degree program all online – the Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree Program. Starting immediately, the UTHSC College of Nursing will begin to accept applications for its fall 2014 online class of… Read More


Allied Health Open House

The Commercial Appeal

UTHSC’s College of Allied Health Sciences “Open House”: 2-4 p.m. Friday at Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison


Campus Recreation Director Appointed at UTHSC

The Daily News

Junius L. “J. Lee” Taylor has been named director of campus recreation at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Before his appointment, Taylor was the interim director of campus recreation at UTHSC, a position he began in June. He has previously held positions as a coordinator, clinical trial interventionist, health educator and exercise specialist at… Read More


Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

The Commercial Appeal

More than 150 people, most of them black women, packed into the Church Health Center last week to explore why black women here suffer most and how the community can help. Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’sinitiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have… Read More


Following in a surgeon’s footsteps

The Memphis Business Journal

After more than 31 years with Campbell Clinic, James Beaty still remembers what set him on the path to become an orthopedic surgeon. He hopes he can make the same difference for a high school student looking to get into the field.


Dean of UT pharmacy college in Memphis knows business

In the Media Icon

Within about two months of becoming dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2012, Marie Chisholm-Burns enrolled at the University of Memphis to earn an MBA. Chisholm-Burns’ purpose was to experience a dual degree program available to pharmacy students so she could advise them, but she earned a… Read More


Wendi C. Thomas: Barriers to breast cancer screening, treatment cost Memphis black women’s lives

The Commercial Appeal

Dr. Patricia Matthews-Juarez, of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s initiative on health disparities, had a request for the audience: Call out the names of women who have died from breast cancer.


People on the Move: Stephanie Phelps

The Memphis Business Journal

Stephanie J. Phelps, PharmD, has been awarded the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Education Award. The award honors an ACCP member who has made substantial and outstanding contributions to clinical pharmacy education at either the undergraduate or the postgraduate level.