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UTHSC’s Dr. Altha Stewart Wins 2022 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health

Altha J. Stewart, MD, senior associate dean for Community Health Engagement and associate professor of psychiatry in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s College of Medicine has been awarded the 2022 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health by The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF).

 

UTHSC College of Medicine Dedicated New Sign at Frayser Community Urban Garden

The Office of Community Health Engagement in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center held a dedication ceremony earlier this month for a new sign at the Frayser Community Urban Garden.

Department of Surgery’s Zalamea Honored for Leadership as Educator, Global Health Care Provider

Nia Zalamea, MD, FACS, assistant professor of general surgery, director of the UTHSC Global Surgery Institute, and associate director of the UTHSC Center for Multicultural and Global Health, has done medical mission work in the Philippines for more than 20 years with her family foundation, the Memphis Mission of Mercy. The nonprofit provides health care in her parents’ home country of the Philippines.

Frayser Community Garden’s Greens Tasting Sees Growth in Second Year

It was an evening of competition, culture, and education at the second Greens Tasting in Frayser, hosted by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Board of Visitors and the Office of Community Health Engagemen

Two UTHSC Professors Receive Awards for Inspiring Other Women Physicians

Mukta Panda, MD, MACP, F-RCP London, and Catherine Womack, MD, FACP, have received the American Medical Women’s Association INSPIRE Award for their accomplishments as exceptional women physicians.