Grand Rounds

Methodist Healthcare Foundation President Retires

May 15, 2019 at 12:55 pm by admin

Paula Jacobson, who served as president of the Methodist Healthcare Foundation for 18 years, has retired. Jacobson, who joined Methodist in 2000, has overseen fundraising acti.... Read More

Mitch Graves Named CEO of West Cancer Center

May 15, 2019 at 12:47 pm by admin

Mitch Graves, who has more than 30 years in leadership positions with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH), began this month as the new Chief Executive Officer of West Cancer.... Read More

HealthLink International Opens Memphis Facility

May 15, 2019 at 12:44 pm by admin

HealthLink International, a 'total solutions provider' for companies active in the medical device and human tissue markets, has opened a medical device facility in Memphis a t.... Read More

Annual 'Ride for Life' Bike Tour Set for June 23

May 15, 2019 at 12:37 pm by admin

The eighth Annual 'Ride for Life' (for Organ & Tissue Donation Awareness) is scheduled 7 am Sunday, June 23 at Memorial Park, 5668 Poplar Ave. The 25-mile ride is a non-co.... Read More

UTHSC Ranked Among Top 10 Safest Colleges in America

May 15, 2019 at 12:31 pm by admin

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) has been ranked in the Top 10 among the 2019 Safest Colleges in America, according to a list released by the National.... Read More

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Labs Earn Accreditation

May 15, 2019 at 12:29 pm by admin

The laboratories at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (MLH) have been awarded reaccreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP). The system of laboratories at MLH.... Read More

UTHSC Selects Woods as Addiction Science Medical Director

May 15, 2019 at 12:27 pm by admin

John B. Woods, MD, has been named medical director for the Center for Addiction Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). A graduate of the UTHSC C.... Read More

UTHSC Adopts Tuition Reduction for Out-of-State Students

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:22 pm by admin

Out-of-state students at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will see reduced tuition rates for the coming academic year in the Colleges of Pharmacy an.... Read More

Record Numbers Attend Doctors' Day on the Hill

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:21 pm by admin

Doctors converged on Nashville in record numbers for their day on the Hill. More than 350 physicians and healthcare advocates gathered in Nashville in late March to bring the.... Read More

UTHSC Researcher Wins $1.4 Million NIH Grant

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:16 pm by admin

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center's (UTHSC) Junling Wang, PhD, professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, has been awarded ove.... Read More

Two Physicians Join American Esoteric Laboratories

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:15 pm by admin

American Esoteric Laboratories, the Midsouth Division of Sonic Healthcare, has added two new physicians to its staff. Holly Hilsenbeck Pierce, MD, has joined American Esoteric.... Read More

St. Jude Honored for Cancer Research

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:15 pm by admin

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital received the American Association for Cancer Research 2019 Team Science Award in Atlanta during the last month's opening ceremony of the.... Read More

Rhodes Senior Research Published in Medical Journal

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:11 pm by admin

Elizabeth Gaudio, a senior neuroscience major at Rhodes College and one of the first interns of the college's Le Bonheur Children's Hospital's Summer Plus Program, has jointly.... Read More

UTHSC's Glazer Awarded $100,000 SSAT Grant

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:04 pm by admin

Evan S. Glazer, MD, PhD, FACS, assistant professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology and the Department of Surgery in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee.... Read More

Saint Francis Celebrates 15 Years of Weight Loss

Apr 15, 2019 at 03:02 pm by admin

Saint Francis Hospital this month marked the 15th anniversary of its Center for Surgical Weight Loss. During that time the hospital reports it had 6,600 weight loss surgeries.... Read More