Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Ranked Among Best Children’s Hospitals
|In spring 2011, for the first time, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital was named to the U.S. News & World Report Best Children’s Hospitals list.
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Transplant Institute Sets Records for Volume, Patient Survival Rates
|In 2011, the Methodist University Hospital (MUH) Transplant Institute, which is operated by physicians at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), set new records for transplant volumes and patient survival rates.
Fred C. Heros Selected UTHSC College of Dentistry Outstanding Alumnus
|Longtime Memphian Fred C. Heros, DDS, has been selected as the 2012 UTHSC College of Dentistry Outstanding Alumnus. Dr. Heros will receive the award at the Alumni Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 2 at the Hilton Memphis.
UTHSC, Le Bonheur Appoint New Chair, Department of Pediatrics
|Pediatric infectious disease researcher Jon McCullers, M.D., has been appointed the sixth chair of the Department of Pediatrics for UTHSC and pediatrician-in-chief for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Professor Jonathan Jaggar Named Maury W. Bronstein Chair of Excellence
|Jonathan H. Jaggar, PhD, professor of Physiology at UTHSC, has been named to the Maury W. Bronstein Chair of Excellence in Cardiovascular Physiology in the UTHSC College of Medicine.
Carrie Plummer, Doctoral Nursing Student, Receives $100,000
|Carrie Plummer, MSN, ANP, a doctoral nursing student at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has received one of 15 national John A. Hartford Academic Geriatric Nursing pre-doctoral scholarships.
Physiology Professor Gadiparthi Rao Renews Four NIH Grants
|Gadiparthi Rao, PhD, professor of Physiology, has successfully renewed four grants from the NIH, bringing his current total to five R01 grants — the highest number held by one individual at UTHSC.
Gerald Byrne Named Full-time Director of Regional Biocontainment Lab
|David M. Stern, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine and interim vice chancellor of Research at the UTHSC, has appointed Gerald Byrne, PhD, the full-time director of the UTHSC Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL).