Grand Rounds

UnitedHealth Group Commits Initial $50 Million to Combat COVID-19 and Support Affected Communities

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:13 am by admin

UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) will invest an initial $50 million to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and support those most directly impacted by the public health emergency, inclu.... Read More

IAC Associates launches Integrated Addiction Care via Telemedicine

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:12 am by admin

IAC Associates & Baptist Center of Excellence in Addiction has launched a comprehensive telemedicine program for patients with drug and alcohol addictions. Our integrated.... Read More

College of Medicine Names New Assistant Deans of Student Affairs

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:11 am by admin

Catherine Womack, MD, associate dean of Student Affairs and Admissions for the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, has named Sara Cross, MD, Dei.... Read More

Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD, Named Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at UTHSC

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:07 am by admin

Scott Strome, MD, executive dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), has named Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD, Harrison Distinguish.... Read More

St. Jude Experimental Anti-malarial Drug Shows Promise in First Clinical Trial

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:04 am by admin

A fast-acting anti-malarial compound discovered at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was well tolerated and showed promising anti-malarial effects in the first study in h.... Read More

Urgent Team - Bartlett Welcomes New Nurse Practitioner

Apr 16, 2020 at 10:03 am by admin

Urgent Team Walk-In Urgent Care welcomes nurse practitioner Stacy Gibson to the healthcare team in Bartlett. Gibson earned a Master of Science in Nursing from The University o.... Read More

MidSouth Imaging Welcomes New Physicians

Apr 16, 2020 at 09:59 am by admin

MidSouth Imaging has announced that two new physicians have been added to the staff in the practice of Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology at Baptist Memorial Ho.... Read More

UTHSC Launches Website with COVID-19 Information, Resources

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:51 pm by admin

MEMPHIS - As Tennessee's public academic health care institution, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has launched a website to provide the public with informati.... Read More

Memphis Among Unhealthiest Cities in America - WalletHub Study

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:51 pm by admin

With health care costs rising and U.S. life expectancy declining for three consecutive years, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2020's Healthie.... Read More

New St. Jude Website Informs Families Facing Childhood Cancer

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:50 pm by admin

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a leader in the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer, has launched Together, https://together.StJude.org, an o.... Read More

Yaun Elected Vice President of Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:48 pm by admin

Jason Yaun, MD, FAAP, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Chil.... Read More

AMA Supports Passage of Supplemental Appropriations Package to Combat COVID-19

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:47 pm by admin

Patrice A. Harris M.D., M.A., president of the American Medical Association said, "We are pleased that Congress quickly approved this critical bipartisan supplemental appropr.... Read More

Ram Velamuri, MD, Named Associate Medical Director at Regional One Health's Firefighters Burn Center

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:46 pm by admin

MEMPHIS - Ram Velamuri, MD, has been named associate medical director of Regional One Health's Firefighters Burn Center, where he'll help lead a growing team using his clinica.... Read More

Unity Psychiatric Care Names Robert Edwards Administrator in Memphis

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:44 pm by admin

MEMPHIS - Unity Psychiatric Care, a division of Franklin, Tennessee-based American Health Partners, has named Robert Edwards administrator of its Memphis, Tennessee location..... Read More

Memphis Entrepreneur Secures Investment to Fund Fourth Health Care Venture

Mar 12, 2020 at 04:43 pm by admin

MEMPHIS -- Companies will soon have access to medications at cost for employees on their health plans, thanks to a new venture by Phil Baker, PharmD, a Memphis-based entrepren.... Read More