Office of Strategic Partnerships

The Office of Strategic Partnerships, led by Vice Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships Paul Wesolowski, works closely with hospitals, physician groups, community health, and health system partners to build and expand clinical programs of excellence, develop community engagement and outreach services, and support alliances that enhance research opportunities. The Office will also be an engaged partner in civic and community activities, enabling new opportunities for UTHSC to collaborate and serve.

UTHSC’s main campus is in Memphis, where it has longtime clinical and educational partnerships with hospitals enabling a comprehensive healthcare ecosystem that includes Regional One Health, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center (formerly the Memphis Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center), St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Baptist Memorial Healthcare, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, and St. Francis Hospital, as well as multiple specialty clinics, physician practice groups, community, and public health programs. The university also has campuses in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, with clinical and educational partnerships at major hospitals, including Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Erlanger Health System in Chattanooga, the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville, and West Tennessee Healthcare – Jackson Madison County Hospital in Jackson, as well as more than 880 clinical-educational training sites in communities across Tennessee, all supported through strategic partnerships. The Office of Strategic Partnerships will enable these vital relationships to thrive and to broaden UTHSC’s impact in communities all across the great state of Tennessee.