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Kimberly Simpson earns TEACH prize

MBJ Staff — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:01:02 +0000

Dr. Kimberly Simpson, a neuroscientist and associate professor of neurobiology and anatomical sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has received UMMC’s inaugural Regions Bank TEACH Prize. The Toward Educational Advancement in Care and Health Prize includes a $10,000 check and recognizes a faculty member who engages students, challenges them intellectually and demonstrates dedication [...]

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May 3, 2013- Chuck McIntosh

Chuck McIntosh — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:31:46 +0000

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Hannah Gay makes TIME world ranking

MBJ Staff — Fri, 03 May 2013 20:04:10 +0000

Time Magazine has named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, University of Mississippi Medical Center associate professor of pediatrics, to the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. In caring for a newborn infected with HIV in 2010, Gay followed an atypical treatment regimen and functionally cured [...]

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Medical school accrediting body chooses LouAnn Woodward

MBJ Staff — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:59:29 +0000

Dr. LouAnn Woodward, the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s associate vice chancellor for Health Affairs and professor of emergency medicine, has been appointed to the nationally recognized accrediting body for U.S. and Canadian medical schools. Woodward, who is also UMMC’s vice dean of the School of Medicine, will serve a three-year term starting July 1 [...]

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UMMC transplant team achieves benchmarks in kidney, liver procedures

Lynn Lofton — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 14:25:12 +0000

Without leaving the state, longer and a better quality of life are now possible for Mississippians needing kidney and liver transplants. The dedicated transplant teams at the University of Mississippi Medical Center are making that happen. No other health-care facilities in Mississippi transplant organs. In 2012, a record 103 kidney transplants were done at UMMC, [...]

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UMMC provides treatment in reported first “functional HIV cure”

Stephen McDill — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 21:30:19 +0000

The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is reporting its involvement in what researchers say could be a huge break in the fight to cure HIV infections in children. According to a UMMC press release, a research partnership shared between the medical center, John Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Massachusetts Medical School [...]

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Jones seated on board

MBJ Staff — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:39:48 +0000

Dr. Jonathan S. Jones, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been elected as an at-large member to the American Academy of Emergency Medicine’s Young Physicians Section board of directors. He will serve on the board for one year. Jones took part in the in the YPS board meeting [...]

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Nationwide helium rationing causes crisis for balloonists, other industries

Stephen McDill — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:22:03 +0000

Instead of a cute arrangement of romantic balloons, you may want to just settle for chocolate and flowers this Valentine’s Day. The global shortage of helium has led to nationwide rationing of the natural resource and the costs are being passed to the customer. That giant tank you see in the corner of the grocery [...]

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UMMC hoping to enlist young athletes for new baseline concussion test

Clay Chandler — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:22:39 +0000

University of Mississippi Medical Center is taking advantage of a new use for an old piece of equipment to spark a campaign for young athletes to participate in a new concussion test. Using a Computerized Dynamic Posturography device, which resembles an empty refrigerator, doctors can get an idea of an athlete’s normal equilibrium and balance. [...]

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Stringer new president

MBJ Staff — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:27:54 +0000

Dr. Scott Stringer of Ridgeland, University of Mississippi Medical Center chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, has assumed the presidency of the Association of Academic Departments of Otolaryngology. The organization’s past president-elect, Stringer will now serve a two-year term as president. Stringer was also chosen president-elect of the Society of University Otolaryngologists-Head [...]

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