UTHSC In the News

Below is a snapshot of a few of the stories in the media about the UT Health Science Center that occurred during January and February of 2025. As we help tell the UT Health Science Center story, we will send out a bi-monthly look at top media placements generated through the Office of Communications and Marketing, campus communicators, the media, and journal publications. For a more comprehensive list of media mentions please visit UT Health Science Center In the Media at news.uthsc.edu.

 

Estimated Reach: 873 million
(73.7% increase from November – December 2024)

 

Estimated Publicity Value: $13.3 million
(58.3% increase from November – December 2024)

 

Mentions: 341
(32.3% decrease from November – December 2024)

 

Appearances by UT Health Science Center Experts in the Media: 221
(8.3% decrease from November – December 2024)

* Based on total mentions here and others, as reported by Critical Mention media monitoring service.

Social Media

Facebook reach: 124,226 (17.7% decrease from November – December 2024)

Instagram impressions: 29,477 (23.2% decrease from November – December 2024)

LinkedIn impressions: 77,027 (8.9% decrease from November – December 2024) 

Based on estimated metrics reported in each social media platform's analytics.

 

January 2025

January 3 (Medscape)

How Do You Feel: Should Docs Disclose Their Mental Health?

 

January 7 (U.S. Medicine)

VA’s Landmark Study Shifted Paradigm for Managing Diabetes

 

January 7 (Daily Memphian)

Binghampton mental health crisis center ready for Valentine’s Day launch

 

January 15 (The Tennessean)

University of Tennessee offers right fit for students from Knoxville to Memphis | Opinion

  • Also featured in Yahoo! News, The Leaf Chronicle, Southwest Times Record, and The Commercial Appeal print edition

 

January 16 (Bioengineer.org)

Research Team Secures $1.5 Million for Groundbreaking Study on Neurological Disorders Associated with Long COVID

  • Also featured in EurekAlert!, ScienMag, and News-Medical.net

 

January 19 (Hoodline)

University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing Partners with Wilder Youth Development in Somerville for Enhanced Care and Education

 

January 20 (Daily Memphian)

A lifetime of practice: Memphis doctors celebrate half-century of healing

 

January 20 (Memphis Business Journal)

Women Who Lead in Dentistry: Downtown to Midtown to the Medical District

 

January 24 (The Commercial Appeal)

This Shelby County program with free cooking, fitness classes has changed lives in Memphis

 

January 27 (Daily Memphian)

Old Commercial Appeal building to be new site of Regional One

  • Also featured in WMC Action News 5, WKNO, The Commercial Appeal, Tri-State Defender, Memphis Flyer, Healthcare Design Magazine, Daily Memphian (Follow-up), Daily Memphian (Follow-up), Daily Memphian (Opinion)

 

January 28 (Memphis Business Journal)

Meet the Power 100: The Educators

 

January 31 (cityCURRENT)

Dr. Phil Wenk discusses updates to Dunn Dental Building at UT Health Science Center in Memphis

February 2025

February 2 (Daily Memphian)

Retiring Germantown Presbyterian’s choir director has ear for church music

 

February 7 (Daily Memphian)

Inaugural UTHSC chair departs board to standing ovation

 

February 10 (Knoxville News Sentinel)

Communication classes use creative ways to help folks with aphasia with speech skills

  • Also featured in Yahoo! Life

 

February 11 (News Channel 3)

NIH cuts could hurt research at St. Jude, UT

  • Also featured in Daily Memphian, Yahoo! News, News Channel 5, Hoodline, and ABC 24 broadcast

 

February 12 (Memphis Business Journal)

Local startup StemDen won significant funding at Enterprise Singapore's Slingshot competition

 

February 14 (Knoxville News Sentinel)

From research at distilleries to auto plants, University of Tennessee helps shape the state

  • Also featured in Yahoo! News

 

February 14 (Psychiatric Times)

On the Legacy and Future of Mental Health in Black Communities

 

February 14 (Daily Memphian)

$34M mental health crisis center unveiled in Binghampton

 

February 15 (NewsNation)

Pediatrician recommends vaccinations as ‘quad-demic’ surges

  • Also featured in Yahoo! News and MSN

 

February 19 (Vision Monday)

National Eye Institute Awards $423,500 Grant for Eye Disease Research Using AI

  • Also featured in Modern Retina and Eye on Vision

 

February 20 (Chattanoogan)

Erlanger Orthopaedic Residents Score in the 95th Percentile on AAOS Exam

 

February 24 (Memphis Business Journal)

University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) attains Carnegie R1 research status

  • Also featured in Daily Memphian, Action News 5, Choose901, We Are Memphis, Teknovation, Knox TN Today, and Fox 13 broadcasts
 

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