As millions of Americans prepare for holidays, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center says the conversation about heart health needs to shift from cholesterol to include a less visible but more dangerous threat: inflammation. Jimmy Kerrigan, MD, FSCAI, FACC, is an assistant professor of medicine at the College of… Read More
A. Brian Wilcox, Jr., MD, an alumnus of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, has been named associate dean of Clinical Affairs and Graduate Medical Education of the College of Medicine in Nashville. Dr. Wilcox succeeds Gregory James, MD, who recently retired after leading the Nashville campus, based at Ascension Saint Thomas,… Read More
In his 2019-2020 State of the University Address, Chancellor Steve J. Schwab, MD, Monday said the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is “weathering COVID in a lean, but strong fashion.” Speaking via Zoom in his 11th-annual State of the University Address, the chancellor said the university has “maintained our budget, maintained our workforce, and… Read More
