U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker knows the University of Mississippi Medical Center has a state-of-the-art, model telehealth program and the nation's first broadband public safety network that connects emergency responders with life-saving health-care providers. 

It's a waiting game that can be excruciating for the families of Mississippi children who have been sexually abused: How soon can they find out if their child's alleged perpetrator is HIV positive?

MARCH 25 ATTENDEES

• Dr. James Keeton, special advisor to the vice chancellor for health affairs
• Dr. Charles O'Mara, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs 
• Dr. John Purvis, associate professor of pediatric orthopedics 
• Dr. Mart McMullan (by phone), senior advisor to the vice chancellor 
• Dr. Bryan Barksdale, professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology 
• Dr. Mildred Ridgway, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology 
•  Dr. Jim Sones, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Digestive Disorders 
• Dr. Dan Woodliff, associate professor of medicine, internal medicine 
• Kevin Cook, CEO, University Hospitals and Health System 
• Guy Giesecke, CEO, Children's of Mississippi 
• Dr. Mechelle Keeton, director, Office of Physician Relations
• Kate Feldman, physician liaison, Office of Physician Relations

The Medical Center is proud to announce the following addition to its faculty and leadership staff:

Volunteerism earns statewide kudos for the School of Nursing; UMMC pharmacology faculty team with Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee researchers to produce what a national organization claims is one of its top three recent papers.