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UTHSC Addiction Center Gains National Attention

Feb 06, 2017 at 04:11 pm by admin

The College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) brought the national spotlight to Memphis when its new Center for Addiction Science was na.... Read More

Memphis Medical Society Installs New Officers, Board Members

Feb 06, 2017 at 04:09 pm by admin

Phillip R. Langsdon, MD, FACS a facial plastic surgeon at The Langsdon Clinic, has been officially installed as the 2017 president of the Memphis Medical Society during the an.... Read More

Methodist Wins Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Center

Feb 06, 2017 at 04:07 pm by admin

Methodist University Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Heart-Check mark for Adv.... Read More

Saint Francis to Offer Specialized Prostate MRI Biopsy

Feb 06, 2017 at 04:05 pm by admin

The Urology Cancer Center at Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis will offer MRI fusion biopsy, a specialized type of biopsy which was the subject of a recent study in the Journal o.... Read More

St. Jude’s Leslie Robison Honored by American Cancer Society

Feb 06, 2017 at 04:01 pm by admin

Leslie L. Robison, chair of the department of epidemiology and cancer control at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, is one of three outstanding individuals to receive the.... Read More

Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame Requests Nominations

Feb 06, 2017 at 03:59 pm by admin

The Tennessee Health Care Hall of Fame, an initiative to honor Tennessee’s finest healthcare leaders, is accepting nominations for its 2017 class via the organization’s websit.... Read More

Dermatologist Robert Kaplan Honored by UT President’s Council

Feb 06, 2017 at 03:57 pm by admin

Robert J. Kaplan, MD, a Memphis dermatologist, philanthropist, and long-time patron of the University of Tennessee, was awarded the Jim and Natalie Haslam Presidential Medal d.... Read More

AMA Publishes Newly Updated Code of Medical Ethics

Feb 06, 2017 at 03:48 pm by admin

Completely updated after an eight-year modernization project, a revised edition of the Code of Medical Ethics is available from the American Medical Association (AMA) in hardc.... Read More

TMA Training New Class of Physician Leaders

Feb 06, 2017 at 03:45 pm by admin

The Tennessee Medical Association is training 16 Tennessee physicians representing a variety of medical specialties through its 2017 Physician Leadership Lab.The 2017 class in.... Read More

TMA’s ‘Doctors’ Day on the Hill’ Set for Scheduled March 7

Feb 06, 2017 at 03:43 pm by admin

Approximately 300 physicians from across Tennessee are expected to convene at Legislative Plaza in Nashville on Tuesday, March 7, for the Tennessee Medical Association’s annua.... Read More

Tennessee Doctors Weigh In On Healthcare Reform

Feb 01, 2017 at 04:24 pm by admin

As the entire nation watches to see what happens to the Affordable Care Act under the Trump administration, the Tennessee Medical Association has released specific recommendat.... Read More

Seven Years in the Making, ‘Crazy Idea’ Now a Reality

Jan 11, 2017 at 05:41 pm by admin

It’s been roughly seven years since Scott Morris, MD, first heard the suggestion, but he still remembers his reaction.“It was the greatest and craziest idea,” said Morris, fou.... Read More

ESG’s Thomas Brown Stays Ahead With Fresh Concepts

Jan 11, 2017 at 05:35 pm by admin

The direction healthcare reform is taking today is no surprise to Thomas Brown, CEO of Eye Specialty Group (ESG).In Alabama two decades ago, Brown pioneered what were then gro.... Read More

InCharge HealthCare 2017

Jan 11, 2017 at 04:50 pm by admin

Recently, I went on adventure...and it was so good that I went back again and took a few friends with me.   We gathered one afternoon under somewhat threatening skies, suited.... Read More

HEI’s Fleming Carries on Work of Dr. Haik

Jan 11, 2017 at 04:46 pm by admin

When the late Barrett G. Haik recruited James C. Fleming to join the Hamilton Eye Institute in 1997, it was an easy sell.Not only was Haik, MD, FACS, quite persuasive, but Fle.... Read More