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Nurse Lakeeba Hutchins, left, and Brigitta Strutchen, burn center administrator, work in UMMC's new dedicated burn center.

UMMC opens dedicated burn unit to expand statewide care

Published on Monday, May 5, 2025

 From left, Dr. Martin Tucker with Martin Family, Dr. Gloria Howard Martin; Rachel Butler; and Brent Martin at the endowed chair ceremony.

Endowed chair in obstetrics and gynecology honors Dr. James N. Martin Jr. and Dr. Gloria Howard Martin

Published on Monday, May 5, 2025

 Sisters Dana Long of Hernando, left, and Jena Lynch of Vicksburg, visit the UMMC Cemetery following the Ceremony of Thanksgiving honoring anatomical donors – including their grandmother, Willie Frances Greer of Vicksburg. A donor’s remains are either returned to the family or buried in the cemetery, where this monument has been placed in their memory.

Ceremony celebrates those who gave a gift like no other

Published on Monday, April 28, 2025

 Now 40, Chris Glasgow had one time persuaded himself that he was too old to go to medical school. On Commencement Day, he will become one of around 160 graduates from the School of Medicine and will soon begin his specialty training in anesthesiology at UMMC.

#2025UMMCGrad: Chris Glasgow embraces the life he almost lost

Published on Monday, April 21, 2025

 Yolandia Anderson, a polysomnographic technician, preps patient Naevia Dixon, 7, for a sleep study in the Pediatric Sleep Clinic in Batson Tower.

Children’s of Mississippi Sleep Center accredited by American Academy of Sleep Medicine

Published on Monday, April 14, 2025

 Dr. Omar Chohan, associate professor of neurosurgery, implants a neurostimulator to reduce seizures for patient James Canfield.

UMMC becomes the first in Mississippi to offer deep brain stimulation for epilepsy

Published on Monday, April 7, 2025

 Zornia Collier, 51, of Jackson prepares for a health screening, courtesy of Jackson Free Clinic students, during World Homeless Day last fall in Jackson. "With them, it's a caring situation," Collier says of the students. "It's not for a paycheck. It's from the heart."

‘A caring situation’ Students of the Jackson Free Clinic show up where the people are

Published on Monday, March 31, 2025

 Dr. William Daley delivers the 2025 Last Lecture.

’Zip Your Lips and Listen’: Daley delivers ‘Last Lecture’

Published on Monday, March 31, 2025

 With wife, Bonnie, cheering him on, Chris Glasgow, president of the fourth-year medical school class, reveals that he has matched in anesthesiology at UMMC.

“Matching” medical students remember the kindness and skill of those who inspired them to be doctors

Published on Monday, March 24, 2025

 Recalling dedication of the respiratory therapists at UMMC, Dr. Andy Wilhelm said, "Everyone of them raised their hand when it was their turn. I don't know how many steps they got in every day." Among them, shown in this 2020 file photo, is David Mitchell, who's checking the ventilator of an ICU patient with COVID-19.

Plagued by memories: UMMC leaders reflect on COVID’s 5th anniversary

Published on Monday, March 17, 2025