A team led by UC Foundation Professor Steven Symes in the Department of Chemistry and Physics and UC Foundation Professor Sean Richards in the Department of Biology, Geology and Environmental Science is testing whether blood samples can be used to screen for endometrial cancer.
For UTC sophomore, helping improve health in underserved communities is ‘what I want to do 110% deep in my soul’
Gillian Morton, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in pre-health professional exercise and health science with minors in biology and chemistry, was one of five UTC undergraduates to attend this summer’s HBCU Wellness Project at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
Comfortable and cute: Laura Moreland’s scrub caps a hit with nursing students
Colorful fabrics. Playful designs. Saucy sayings such as “Spicy like Propofol,” an anesthesia drug that burns on injection. All part of the scrub cap collection created by Laura Moreland, a student in the UTC nurse anesthesia program.
Kids, work, school: Jam packed life won’t block Isaacson from degree
Jennifer Isaacson has been going non-stop with four children, education and work—and soon will possess a nursing degree.
From “doc” to nurse, UTC student headed to Erlanger after graduation
UTC nursing student Matthew Lewis, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree this week, built on his experience as a U.S. Navy corpsman in gravitating toward the high-demand field.
How to maintain motivation and a sense of meaning, study asks
How do those in health care avoid burnout, especially now?
Work by UTC students makes things easier for hospital patients
Anna Tenpenny admits she was “geeking.” Walking through the brand-new Kennedy Outpatient Center for the Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, not only was she dazzled with the building itself, she also gazed with wonder upon the electronic kiosks that register patients at the center. It’s a system she and two other students pitched to Erlanger officials,…
Ana Rodas: Nothing is going to keep her from the kids
A moment that almost didn’t happen will not be a moment too soon when Ana Rodas begins her professional nursing career two days after commencement. Rodas has wanted to be a nurse since her junior year at Nashville’s McGavock High School, where she was a strong student with more than her share of honors…
June Matthews recognized by Erlanger
When Baroness Erlanger Hospital acquired one of the first heart-lung machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery in 1960, it was not long before it was used to successfully correct a defective heart valve in a male teen born with a congenital heart condition. It was the region’s first open-heart surgery.