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Let’s Take a Moment to Look at This

Jul 13, 2015 at 04:29 pm by admin

On Monday, June 16th, the lead story in the Washington Post was, “Study Finds 50 Hospitals Charge Uninsured More Than 10 Times the Actual Costs of Patient Care.” The study s.... Read More

UTHSC’s New Arrival Something of a Rarity

Jul 13, 2015 at 04:22 pm by admin

The long road home took Teresa Wright, MD, to the Northeast, then the Midwest and then the Southwest, but 31 years after she left Memphis, she made it back.Wright left Texas C.... Read More

Regional One CMO Ties Aviation to Medicine

Jul 13, 2015 at 04:09 pm by admin

Raise the question of how medicine is evolving today and you’ll discover that a love of aviation and a fascination with flying fuel Dr. Eric H. Benink’s observations with apt.... Read More

Health Science Schools Make Strides in Diversity

Jul 13, 2015 at 03:54 pm by admin

Health educators keep close count of the race and ethnic origins of their students, as well as their faculty and staff members, and not just because recruiting minorities is t.... Read More

Skyrocketing Cost of Prescription Drugs Must Be Reversed, Says Dermatologist

Jun 17, 2015 at 05:51 pm by admin

As baby boomers grow older and live longer – with the youngest members of that generation having already passed the half-century mark – perhaps it isn’t surprising that prescr.... Read More

Memphian Named President Elect of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:41 pm by admin

Memphis neurosurgeon Frederick A. Boop, MD, FAANS, is President-Elect of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS). His appointment was announced during the 83r.... Read More

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center Graduates 698

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:40 pm by admin

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) last month graduated 698 health care professionals during six different graduation ceremonies.This year’s graduating.... Read More

UTHSC’s Valerie K. Arnold Inducted into American College of Psychiatrists

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:39 pm by admin

Valerie K. Arnold MD, FAPA, chief of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has been inducted into th.... Read More

UTHSC Alumna, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Inducted Into Astronaut Hall of Fame

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:37 pm by admin

Margaret Rhea Seddon, MD, alumna of the College of Medicine (’73) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), last month was inducted into the Astronaut Hal.... Read More

Three Sutherland Cardiologists Begin New Treatment for Peripheral Arterial Disease

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:36 pm by admin

Three interventional cardiologists with Sutherland Cardiology – Dwight Dishmon, MD; Shadwan Alsafwah, MD; and Rami Khouzam, MD – have begun offering a new minimally-invasive.... Read More

SVMIC Completes Board Leadership Transition with Memphis Physician Assuming Role as Chair

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:35 pm by admin

Brentwood, Tennessee-based State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company (SVMIC) has completed a planned leadership transition within its Board of Directors with Dr. Hugh Francis o.... Read More

TMA to Offer Workshops Concerning Transition to ICD-10; Memphis Date Set August 11

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:34 pm by admin

The Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) will offer workshops at different locations in the state to help providers transition to ICD-10 before the October 1 deadline. The han.... Read More

Methodist South Hospital Names Community Development Director

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:32 pm by admin

Vickye Ford has been named community development director at Methodist South Hospital.Her responsibilities will include enhancing and extending the hospital’s growth strategie.... Read More

60-Bed Behavioral Health Hospital Being Built in Germantown

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:30 pm by admin

A 60-bed behavioral health hospital currently under construction on Winchester Road in Germantown is scheduled to open in the spring of 2016, according to officials at Delta M.... Read More

Le Bonheur’s Barry Gilmore Honored During TNEMSC Conference

Jun 17, 2015 at 01:29 pm by admin

Dr. Barry Gilmore, Medical Director of Emergency Services at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital was presented the Advocate for Children award during the 14th Annual meeting of the.... Read More