Lawrence Reiter, PhD, associate professor in the Departments of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Anatomy and Neurobiology, has received a grant totaling $412,344 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
