For more than 40 years, the Memphis Crisis Center has provided much-needed counseling to those in distress through a 24/7, volunteer-staffed hotline. But in the last few years, whether because of the economy or the troubled times, calls to the confidential lifeline (901-CRISIS7 or 901-274-7477) have gone up dramatically, from 14,103 in 2011 to 17,629… Read More
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, UT Health Science Center, and UT Medical Group Create UT Methodist Physicians Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 30, 2013) – Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) has partnered with UT Medical Group, Inc. (UTMG) and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to create a new academic physician practice group that will enhance the… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 9, 2013) – Four outstanding physicians – a pediatric urologist, a pediatrician, a family medicine physician and a pathologist – will be honored when graduates of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine gather in Memphis for the annual Medicine Alumni Weekend Aug. 15-17.
Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 15, 2013) – Melody Norris Waller, MSN, RN, an instructor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, was chosen one of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future Fall 2013 Minority Nurse Faculty Scholars.
Memphis, Tenn. (Sept. 5, 2013) – The College of Dentistry at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) opens a new state-of-the-art endodontics clinic in the Winfield C. Dunn Building at 875 Union Ave., on Friday, Sept. 6. The Dentsply Tulsa Endodontics Graduate Clinic, located on the north side of the fifth floor of… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 19, 2013) – Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FRCP, FACP, FACE, professor of medicine and director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has been selected as the Internal Medicine Section Physician of the Year by the National Medical Association. In late July, he… Read More
Memphis, Tenn. (Aug. 9, 2013) – Despite the advances in cancer treatment during the last few decades, there has been little improvement in the care of patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. The median survival rate for patients with this aggressive form of brain cancer, which took the life of U.S. Sen.… Read More
Rex Amonette, MD, and Robert Kaplan, MD Memphis, Tenn. (July 30, 2013) — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Dermatology Department in the College of Medicine has been officially named the Kaplan-Amonette Department of Dermatology, in honor of Robert Kaplan, MD, and Rex Amonette, MD. Drs. Kaplan and Amonette, both UTHSC dermatology alumni,… Read More
