The University of Mississippi Medical Center is an academic health science center dedicated to education, research, patient care and ending health disparities. http://www.umc.edu/ University of Mississippi Medical Center en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 00:31:29 -0500 dis-web@umc.edu (UMMC Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:31:29 -0500 dis-web@umc.edu (UMMC Webmaster) 15 http://www.umc.edu/App_Themes/UMCDefault/Images/template/ummc_logo_rss.gif http://www.umc.edu/ Centerview - University of Mississippi Medical Center 100 134 He doesn’t remember the deer, the ambulance or the ICU.There’s a black hole in Dan Turner’s memory of 30 days’ duration. A 270-pound chunk of irony with antlers crashed into him, bursting from the woods in the early-December dusk. But he doesn’t remember it. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517251 Centerview 2147517251 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 When Dr. James D. Hardy and his surgical team became the first to successfully transplant a lung from one human to another, there were no social media available to tout the landmark event. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517268 Centerview 2147517268 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Mary McNair remembers her mother as an “amazing lady who had a great sense of humor.” A sense of humor which helped her cope with Alzheimer’s disease. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517266 Centerview 2147517266 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Hospital administrators and directors who volunteered to give up their parking spaces on campus board the shuttle to take them to their new parking spaces at Veterans Memorial Stadium, while the employees who won the “Trading Spaces” drawing as part of Employee Appreciation Week wave to them. Other events during the week included a “We are UMMC” video contest, Team Spirit Awards, food giveaways, Circles Concierge Service gift basket drawings, gift shop discounts, retirement seminars, cooking demonstrations, a Toastmasters Club presentation, and presentations by guest speakers Marshall Ramsey and Walt Grayson. The UMMC Appreciation Night at the Mississippi Braves game originally scheduled for May 2 has been rescheduled for Thursday, May 16. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517274 Centerview 2147517274 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The 2013 Excellence in Nursing Awards were presented to Medical Center nurses during a May 8 ceremony at the Norman C. Nelson Student Union.  Recipients include, seated from left, Clarissa Thompson-McGee, Nurse Mentor of the Year; Kimberly Edwards, Nurse Manager of the Year; Debbie Konkle-Parker, Nurse Researcher of the Year; Amy Williams, Nurse in a Non-traditional Setting of the Year; Gordon Gartrell, Nurse Rookie of the Year; and standing from left, Skye Stoker, Nursing Unit of the Year; Traci Dickens, Licensed Practical Nurse of the Year; Sarah Gilbert, Clinical Practice Nurse of the Year; Jennifer Hargett, Nurse Educator of the Year; Jacqueline Carrillo and Cheryl Dunaway, Advanced Practice Nurses of the Year; Richard Alexander, Nurse of the Year; and Cissy Bailey, Nursing Unit of the Year. (Enlarge photo) http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517273 Centerview 2147517273 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The vegetable garden lies in the morning sun on the east side of Johnson Elementary School in Jackson – three long, raised beds bursting with greens, stalks and spindles flowering seeds and thread-like leaves. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517267 Centerview 2147517267 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 As UMMC joins a nationwide study of women with HIV, paving a path to funding and 20 years of accumulated data, organizers hope more Medical Center researchers will climb aboard. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147517265 Centerview 2147517265 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Not so long ago when she was a cheerleader in college, Jennifer Kennedy performed a no-handed back flip during the halftime routine of a basketball game and broke her prosthetic leg. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516581 Centerview 2147516581 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 When Julie Evers Crump was about five months’ pregnant, a physician solemnly ushered her into a private room with two chairs and a box of Kleenex. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516586 Centerview 2147516586 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Michelle Palokas, inpatient clinical director at Batson Children’s Hospital, recalls going into a patient’s room as a staff nurse and being stumped when the patient’s family asked when the patient’s MRI was scheduled. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516584 Centerview 2147516584 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The growing obesity crisis means pregnant mothers will more often run up against increasingly severe complications, leaving doctors, especially in rural areas, to transfer women to tertiary-care centers like the University of Mississippi Medical Center. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516592 Centerview 2147516592 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 TIME magazine has named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, associate professor of pediatrics, to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, the 2013 TIME 100. Gay is the first UMMC faculty member to make the list. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516594 Centerview 2147516594 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Perched on the eve of retirement, Ann Gordon is excited about her department’s future. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147516589 Centerview 2147516589 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A study in Jackson-area African-Americans found a correlation between weight and chronic kidney disease in obese men but not in the same category of women. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515538 Centerview 2147515538 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Zero to 60 in three seconds.That phrase usually applies only to the fastest cars in the world. But it also fits the warp-speed growth and success of Batson Children’s Hospital’s congenital heart surgery program. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515536 Centerview 2147515536 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Michelle Owens’ new home in Jackson is loaded with the standard features of a typical Habitat house – one of at least 556 built since the founding of Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson in 1986. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515523 Centerview 2147515523 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The School of Dentistry at the University of Mississippi Medical Center will all but close down later this month when all of its 140 students and many faculty and staff members swap the school’s classrooms and clinics for a chance to provide free services to thousands of Mississippians who are living in pain from untreated dental conditions. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515537 Centerview 2147515537 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The University Transplant Guild will host its fourth annual “Day at the Derby” fund-raiser to benefit University transplant patients from 4-10 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, at the Cotton Market Venue. Tickets cost $75 each and include food and drink. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515542 Centerview 2147515542 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Dr. Robert (Bob) Dye Sloan, first chairman and head professor of the Department of Radiology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, died April 3 in Medford, Ore. He was 95. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515541 Centerview 2147515541 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Dr. LouAnn Woodward, associate vice chancellor for health affairs and vice dean of the School of Medicine, has been appointed to the nationally recognized accrediting body for U. S. and Canadian medical schools. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515540 Centerview 2147515540 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Personal advice from a three-time Grammy Award winner has helped Dr. Bettina M. Beech keep a healthy perspective on one of Mississippi’s most difficult challenges. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147515539 Centerview 2147515539 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Mable Daniels’ great-grandmother was a patient in the State Insane Asylum about a century ago when she was laid to rest on the asylum grounds – before her family knew she had died. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514803 Centerview 2147514803 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Jackson-area teenagers who might typically avoid visiting the doctor will have a new teen-friendly option to address their health-care needs when the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing’s teen clinic opens later this month. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514817 Centerview 2147514817 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Participants in The Color Me Rad 5K, part of the Zippity Doo Dah Weekend March 23 in Jackson’s Fondren neighborhood, celebrate after the race in all their kaleidoscopic glory. Proceeds from the weekends festivities benefitted Batson Children’s Hospital. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514822 Centerview 2147514822 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Al Faulk, director of information technology solution strategies, interviews his son, Charlie, a former patient at the Batson Children’s Hospital, during the Mississippi Miracles Radiothon in the BCH lobby. The radiothon, which took place Feb. 27- March 1, raised more than $400,000. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514821 Centerview 2147514821 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A compound in blueberries – pterostilbene – helps keep prostate cancer tumors from growing and spreading in mice, researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center reported in a paper published last month. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514816 Centerview 2147514816 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 This spring, students at the University of Mississippi Medical Center will be forced to make some difficult life-altering decisions. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514819 Centerview 2147514819 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 In an operation that gave a Jackson mother a new chance at life, a team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in March successfully completed the state’s first liver transplant in 22 years. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514818 Centerview 2147514818 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Fourth-year medical student Renaldo Williams announces his residency match to Vanderbilt in general surgery while an eager crowd of parents, student, spouses and families look on during the Medical Center’s Match Day 2013 ceremony March 15 at the downtown Marriott. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147514820 Centerview 2147514820 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500 The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Telehealth Project is set for a major expansion, thanks to a $450,000 grant from the Delta Regional Authority. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147513030 Centerview 2147513030 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 In the middle of a global media tornado of interest surrounding Dr. Hannah Gay’s functional curing of an HIV-infected child, the quiet, thoughtful Mississippi pediatrician never faltered. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147513015 Centerview 2147513015 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 After 13 years of working as a dental hygienist, Susan Hicks of Tupelo decided to shift gears and pursue a new career in teaching. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147513018 Centerview 2147513018 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 It was three years of high cholesterol that started everything. Rod Simmons visited his family physician in 2009, and when the test results came back showing his numbers were up for the third year in a row, he got a chiding from the doctor. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147513023 Centerview 2147513023 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 She didn’t break away from her boyfriend until after he broke her teeth, pulled her hair and forced her into his car, where he kept a gun. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147513021 Centerview 2147513021 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Scientists analyzing a gene linked to obesity and diabetes found that people with certain variants experienced more cognitive decline in middle age. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512124 Centerview 2147512124 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Inside the new home of the Lakeland Family Medicine Center, none of the doors stick open. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512099 Centerview 2147512099 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Take a moment to think about what’s in your medicine cabinet. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512127 Centerview 2147512127 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 23rd annual Taste of the U was held on February 23, at the Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran Center and grossed $52,000 for the UMMC Alliance. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512126 Centerview 2147512126 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Before it was ever a place to Christopher Burney, Mississippi was a sound. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512125 Centerview 2147512125 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Second-year dental student Hilary Sartain is coated by her fiancée, Dr. Alan Grimm, during the School of Dentistry Class of 2015 American College of Dentists White Coat Ceremony Feb. 22 at the Norman C. Nelson Student Union. The coats are presented to the students during their third-year transition from pre-clinical to clinical studies, when they see patients chairside. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147512128 Centerview 2147512128 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Dr. Ralph Didlake was on call the day police let him inside the smoke-filled office of his colleague, shortly after her estranged husband had broken in and shot her to death. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511252 Centerview 2147511252 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Teams at the University of Mississippi Medical Center transplanted a record 103 kidneys last year, a figure they could surpass in 2013 even while preparing to restart liver transplantations following a 22-year hiatus. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511288 Centerview 2147511288 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Two scientific journals are publishing Festschrift editions to honor Dr. Julius Cruse in recognition of his 47 years of contributions to immunopathology and his role as mentor to scores of students, faculty and colleagues. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511277 Centerview 2147511277 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 As pediatric pulmonary and surgical physicians for close to 80 years combined at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. Richard and Dr. Suzanne Miller helped train hundreds of physicians and improve the lives of thousands of Mississippi children. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511281 Centerview 2147511281 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 During a lull between pint-sized patients, third-year dental student Adriane White and second-year dental student Hilary Sartain paused to catch their breath. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511287 Centerview 2147511287 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 On what would appear to be a normal workday in a typical office environment, employees are just settling into their regular job routines when they are abruptly interrupted by the unthinkable. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147511286 Centerview 2147511286 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A new medical device now being used at the University of Mississippi Medical Center promises to keep athletes with certain shoulder separations on the playing field. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509792 Centerview 2147509792 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Dr. Makram Ebeid and a team at UMMC recently performed two catheterized heart-repair procedures that streamed live to an international conference. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509805 Centerview 2147509805 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Rhonda Hale always took her keen vision for granted, but last summer, her whole world fell out of focus. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509811 Centerview 2147509811 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Thousands of Mississippi children and adolescents coping with behavioral and mental health issues need help, and they need it quickly. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509807 Centerview 2147509807 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 For four months, wherever Abby Blackburn took her 1-year-old son, Miller, people stared at him and his little blue helmet. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509809 Centerview 2147509809 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 After you follow our Instagram account, be sure to mention us in the photo description or comment section on your UMMC-related photos. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509813 Centerview 2147509813 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A rare winter storm reached the Medical Center Jan. 17, blanketing the campus with snow.  For more photos of the wintry weather visit our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ummc1. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147509812 Centerview 2147509812 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Despite rising asthma rates nationally, Dr. Gailen Marshall believes a cure could be less than a lifetime away. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508836 Centerview 2147508836 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 As third-year medical student Bradley Deere helped mark the symbolic groundbreaking for UMMC’s new School of Medicine, he admitted in front of God, the governor and everybody that he was a “little jealous.” http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508818 Centerview 2147508818 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A new Web-based application now being deployed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center promises to be a one-stop shop for the retrieval of historical (pre-Epic) patient data. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508835 Centerview 2147508835 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 Mississippi’s health challenges, including access to medical care, are well documented. The Pediatric Specialty Outreach Clinics, a cooperative new partnership between the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Hattiesburg Clinic, offer a way to meet that challenge. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508831 Centerview 2147508831 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 On a soggy morning in December, nurse practitioner Kathy Rhodes and registered nurse Kayla Logan are treating a steady stream of runny-nosed preteens. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508833 Centerview 2147508833 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 As a cold rain beat on the window, Catherine Terhune savored the warmth and weight of her daughter’s body against her chest, enjoyed the slow, raspy music of her baby’s breathing that beat out the rhythm of another miracle. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147508834 Centerview 2147508834 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0500 A sleep study of 1,200 African-Americans begun this fall by University of Mississippi Medical Center researchers promises to deepen knowledge about how sleep disorders may contribute to cardiovascular and other diseases. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507085 Centerview 2147507085 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Tears filled Olevia Williams’ eyes as Jacob Partlow, her 12-year old son, walked onto Hollingsworth Field at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507084 Centerview 2147507084 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The last time Mohammad Ali took a jab at someone, he used a needle. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507086 Centerview 2147507086 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The inability of health-care professionals to understand and appropriately respond to a radically contrasting culture can have dire consequences on the quality of care they can provide. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507056 Centerview 2147507056 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Members of the School of Health Related Professions Associated Student Body hosted their annual toy drive Dec. 3 to benefit Batson Children’s Hospital patients. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507088 Centerview 2147507088 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The Batson Light-A-Light for Children was held December 4, at the Batson Children's Hospital. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507087 Centerview 2147507087 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 With Hurricane Sandy churning toward the eastern seaboard in October, Dr. Carl Mangum got the call to deploy with the Tennessee-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and fly to Maryland to assist storm evacuees. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147507082 Centerview 2147507082 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The 2013 Taste committee is seeking chef teams to participate in the annual Taste of the U, the major fund-raiser for the UMMC Alliance, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Jackson Medical Mall Thad Cochran Center. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506243 Centerview 2147506243 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The explosive pace of technology is giving scientists insight into how tiny disease-causing bacteria mutate and spread on local, nationwide and worldwide scales. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506238 Centerview 2147506238 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Second-year dental student Trevor Tindle has a lot in common with her mother, Dr. Raanne Ray Tindle of Cleveland. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506227 Centerview 2147506227 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The photographs are horrifying. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506239 Centerview 2147506239 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The election of medical student Leland Husband to a prominent leadership position will help generate national recognition for his school and, he hopes, new ideas for improving health care for his state. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506242 Centerview 2147506242 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 When recent data from the intensive care unit indicated a spike in catheter-associated urinary tract infections, a potential solution to preventing this type of infection for patients at the University of Mississippi Medical Center came from a once-overlooked source. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506241 Centerview 2147506241 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 More than 15,000 people live in Tallahatchie County. Three of them are doctors. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147506240 Centerview 2147506240 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The Friday afternoon multiple sclerosis clinics that Dr. Robert Herndon and two postdoctoral fellows ran during the late 1970s and early ‘80s grated them like a rasp. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505441 Centerview 2147505441 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Carson Pouncey of Brandon was “trapped” inside an earthquake-in-a-box. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505423 Centerview 2147505423 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Brooke Matherne had just enrolled in the Radiologic Technology Program at Delgado Community College in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina raged ashore in August 2005, displacing Matherne and her family. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505440 Centerview 2147505440 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Recent media scrutiny of the potential impact of the federal government’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program on Mississippi hospitals has shined a spotlight on 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients throughout the state. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505439 Centerview 2147505439 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Mary Ellis Cravey, 10, checks out her freshly painted face during the Batson Children’s Hospital annual Fall Carnival Oct. 31 at the Batson/Wiser courtyard. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505442 Centerview 2147505442 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 UMMC’s annual service organization donation drive is November 5-16. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147505443 Centerview 2147505443 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0500 A visit from Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, gave researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center a chance to show how they use tens of millions in yearly grant funding from his agency to help understand diseases, train students and improve human health. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504700 Centerview 2147504700 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 It’s that time again. Time to choose your favorite candidate for the national election and time to choose your favorite charities for the annual UMMCares campaign. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504715 Centerview 2147504715 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Dr. James D. Hardy, professor and chairman of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center from 1955-87, used the technology of his day to document some of the most important surgeries in UMMC’s history. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504717 Centerview 2147504717 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The story of Martha Patrick’s disease is carved in the landscape of her rust-brown limbs – a ridged, flesh-and-blood geology resembling a bird’s-eye view of the Grand Canyon at sunset. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504716 Centerview 2147504716 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 The Alliance is a social and charitable organization that raises funds through multiple yearly events including Taste of the U and spring and fall luncheons. Funds support UMMC patients, students, families, faculty and staff. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504720 Centerview 2147504720 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Patients at Batson Children’s Hospital have one more reason to root for the Rebels and the Bulldogs. At each of the last three home football games at Mississippi State and Ole Miss, the universities will feature the state’s only children’s hospital in a campaign aimed at raising awareness of the hospital’s critical mission and needs. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504719 Centerview 2147504719 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 When Casey Stevens and a group of fellow occupational therapy students left for Haiti in August, they took with them three large suitcases stuffed with a hodgepodge of household things, like shelf liner, pipe insulation and leopard print duct tape. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147504718 Centerview 2147504718 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 A patent that biochemistry professor Dr. Drazen Raucher received last month represents a major accomplishment in his decade-long development of a cancer-fighting therapy. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503953 Centerview 2147503953 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 When agitated patients come into emergency departments, many end up physically restrained and over sedated with medications. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503954 Centerview 2147503954 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Sitting by itself on the edge of campus, removed from the four-hospital complex of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the single-story University Rehabilitation Center is easily overlooked. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503951 Centerview 2147503951 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 A comprehensive review of the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s voluntary benefits program by an institutional benefits committee has resulted in unprecedented changes to UMMC employees’ 2013 insurance package. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503952 Centerview 2147503952 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Facing surgery and hospitalization can be a stressful experience for anyone, especially a child. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503950 Centerview 2147503950 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 On a recent morning at Batson Children’s Hospital, the sounds of surgery filled Operating Room 6: monitors beeped, a ventilator hissed, suction tubes squished, Tom Petty’s heart broke. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147503941 Centerview 2147503941 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500 A clinical trial of an experimental therapy that could start accepting patients next year in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s emergency department may help save critically ill sepsis patients. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502821 Centerview 2147502821 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 A crane swinging I-beams into place and a nearly constant blast of construction noise now common at the University of Mississippi Medical Center might make a distracting backdrop outside the window of Dr. Michael Lehman’s temporary office. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502819 Centerview 2147502819 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 If Ervin Fox ran a smoothie stand, he’d offer customers heart-healthy drinks in three sizes: Big Gulp, Middleman and Kiddy. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502816 Centerview 2147502816 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 One night in the middle of summer, Dr. LaDonna Northington found herself indulging in a brownie-ice cream combo when she turned to her Facebook friends for an impromptu intervention. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502818 Centerview 2147502818 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 For some Mississippians, the only thing worse than dying from HIV/AIDS is admitting they have it. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502807 Centerview 2147502807 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 Greg Young, right, machinist, receives the flu vaccine from Whitney Melton, PICU nurse, while Ronnie Lindsey, second from left, machinist, receives a flu shot from Leanne Casey, pediatric ER nurse, during the Office of Student/Employee Health’s Campus Flu Blitz. The flu vaccine will be available free to all Medical Center faculty, staff and students this week in the Office of Student/Employee Health. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502822 Centerview 2147502822 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 It may be one of the biggest “Win-Win” relationships in residency training programs today. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502820 Centerview 2147502820 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500 University of Mississippi Medical Center researchers are exploring how children’s thinking styles, in particular the tendency to interpret situations as threatening, are influenced by their parents as well as their own temperaments. http://www.umc.edu/WorkArea/linkit.aspx?LinkIdentifier=id&ItemID=2147502184 Centerview 2147502184 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500