Grand Rounds

Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab Exec Elected President of THCA

Sep 01, 2025 at 10:43 pm by pjeter

Memphis Jewish Home & Rehab’s Executive Director, Bobby Meadows, III, has been elected as the incoming President for the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Health C.... Read More

UTHSC Grad Student Awarded Prestigious Fellowship to Improve CAR T-Cell Therapy for Cancer Patients

Sep 01, 2025 at 10:39 pm by pjeter

Michaela Meehl, a graduate student in the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, has received a prestigious predoctoral fell.... Read More

Researcher Awarded $3.24 Million to Develop Promising New Breast Cancer Treatment

Sep 01, 2025 at 10:38 pm by pjeter

Wei Li, PhD, distinguished professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and director of the College of Pharmacy&.... Read More

Regional One Health Names Executive Leaders

Sep 01, 2025 at 10:28 pm by pjeter

Regional One Health recently promoted two leaders to its executive team. Angel Parker-Heffner, MSN APRN FNP-C CNML CPHON, has been named vice president of operations for Regi.... Read More

Alicia Barnes, DO, MPH, Named Inaugural Urban Child Institute Endowed Chair of Excellence for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry  

Sep 01, 2025 at 10:11 pm by pjeter

  Alicia Barnes, DO, MPH, has been named the inaugural Urban Child Institute (UCI) Endowed Chair of Excellence for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of T.... Read More

Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon Becomes First Executive Officer for Community Site Engagement with SWOG Cancer Research Network.

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:51 pm by pjeter

This new role will help increase clinician engagement with SWOG and SWOG trials at community practice sites, as well as ensure community-based investigators can participate in.... Read More

Lammers Becomes First Memphis Doctor to Join Exclusive ASCO Leadership Development Program

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:47 pm by pjeter

Dr. Philip Lammers, chief of medical oncology and medical director of oncology research for Baptist Cancer Center, recently became the first physician in Memphis and the Mid-S.... Read More

Mid-South Internal Medicine Welcomes Dr. Jeremy Avila

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:43 pm by pjeter

Dr. Jeremy Avila comes to MSIM with 10 years of experience in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He is a graduate of The University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Avila comp.... Read More

Mid-South Internal Medicine Takes Pleasure in Welcoming Dr. Sarah Holt

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:38 pm by pjeter

Dr. Sarah Holt completed her residency at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, where she served as Chief Resident of Internal.... Read More

Methodist University Hospital Announces New President   

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:34 pm by pjeter

  Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has announced Archie Drake will join the healthcare system in September as president of Methodist University Hospital. Drake joins the.... Read More

Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's PATH Forward plan Includes One Percent Workforce Reduction

Sep 01, 2025 at 09:31 pm by pjeter

PATH, or Planning, Alignment, Transformational and High Performance, will create the groundwork for the healthcare system’s future as we build a strong workforce to care.... Read More

AMA HOD Adopts New Policies on Medical Education

Jul 07, 2025 at 08:50 pm by pjeter

  CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD) convened at its Annual Meeting to adopt new policies aimed at strengthening medical edu.... Read More

St. Jude pathologist elected to Royal Society of London

Jul 07, 2025 at 08:35 pm by pjeter

  Leukemia researcher Dr. Charles G. Mullighan, senior deputy director of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected as a.... Read More

TMA Leadership Changes Announced for 2025-2026, as They Discuss Healthcare Policy  

Jul 07, 2025 at 08:33 pm by pjeter

    NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Medical Association (TMA) installed new and returning leaders at the organization’s 190th Annual Meeting in Franklin, Ten.... Read More

New Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications and Marketing Named at UTHSC

Jul 07, 2025 at 08:31 pm by pjeter

After an extensive nationwide search, Karla Leeper, PhD, MBA, MA, a highly accomplished communicator with decades of leadership experience in higher education and health care,.... Read More