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Sheila Champlin – (901) 448-4957, schampli@uthsc.edu or

Dena Owens – (901) 448-4072, dowens10@uthsc.edu

 

 

Seventy-one Health Care Professionals Graduate in December from

The University of Tennessee Health Science Center

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Memphis, Tenn. (November 23, 2011) – On Friday, December 9, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduate 71 health care professionals at its winter commencement.  The ceremony, the second commencement to be held during UTHSC’s centennial year, will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Schreier Auditorium, Wassell Randolph Student-Alumni Center, 800 Madison Avenue, ground floor.  Steve J. Schwab, MD, chancellor of UT Health Science Center, will preside over the ceremony and confer the degrees. 

These 71 centennial-year graduates are from four of the six UT Health Science Center’s colleges. 

n      25 from the College of Allied Health Sciences;

n      25 from the College of Graduate Health Sciences;

n      1 from the College of Medicine; and

n      20 from the College of Nursing.

“As our centennial draws to a close, it is gratifying to report that we have graduated a total of 686 students during our 100^th anniversary year,” Chancellor Schwab observed.  “Over the past six years, on average, UTHSC has graduated 730 health care professionals annually.  Our graduates have dispersed across the city, state, region and beyond to carry our brand of competent, caring professionalism into the lives of hundreds of patients.  Everyone affiliated with UTHSC – faculty, staff, students, alumni, donors and friends – should be proud of the outstanding achievements of our first century.”  

As the flagship statewide academic health system, the mission of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is to bring the benefits of the health sciences to the achievement and maintenance of human health, with a focus on the citizens of Tennessee and the region, by pursuing an integrated program of education, research, clinical care, and public service.  In 2011, UT Health Science Center celebrates its centennial: 100 years advancing the future of health care.  Offering a broad range of postgraduate training opportunities, the main UTHSC campus is located in Memphis and includes six colleges: Allied Health Sciences, Dentistry, Graduate Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy.  The UTHSC campus in Knoxville includes a College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy, and an Allied Health Sciences unit.  In addition, the UTHSC Chattanooga campus includes a College of Medicine and an Allied Health Sciences unit.  Since its founding in 1911, UTHSC has educated and trained more than 53,000 health care professionals on campuses and in health care facilities across the state.  For more information, visit www.uthsc.edu.

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