Dr. Andrei V. Alexandrov has been appointed chair of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Department of Neurology and a Semmes-Murphey professor. Alexandrov had been a professor of in the neurology department and director of the Division of Cerebrovascular Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Alexandrov will begin his work at UTHSC in March.
It’s difficult to calculate the economic payoff to the state from offering insurance to the needy, said Teresa Waters, a professor and preventative medicine expert at the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center. But, she adds, “You cannot argue that the uninsured have the same access to care that insured populations have.” In states that… Read More
It’s difficult to calculate the economic payoff to the state from offering insurance to the needy, said Teresa Waters, a professor and preventative medicine expert at the University of Tennessee’s Health Science Center.
Becca Krukowski, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at UTHSC, is quoted in “Weight Loss Roads Less Traveled By,” on page 21 of The Commercial Appeal’s Good Health magazine.
The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation has announced the winners of its 2014 Student Scholarship Program that recognizes students’ involvement in their school’s APhA-ASP chapter. This year recipients [include] … Susan Dickey, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy …
Dr. Matthew T. Ballo has been named chair of the newly formed Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
UTHSC’s Dr. Santosh Koshy was interviewed by My Fox Memphis about the role of a sugary diet in cardiovascular disease.
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s library is undergoing a $4.4 million makeover for the digital age. Electronic journals, more space for small study groups and plenty of power plugs for devices are in. One hundred tons of old-school, printed journals are out. “Libraries of the days of old are no longer how libraries really work,”… Read More
