UT Graduate School of Medicine News and Events

August 24, 2005
Town Hall Meeting Scheduled for September 1, 2005

All UT Graduate School of Medicine staff and faculty members are invited to attend a Faculty and Staff Town Hall Meeting at 7 a.m. on Thursday, September 1 in the Wood Auditorium at the UT Medical Center. During this meeting, UT's Vice President for Health Affairs and Chancellor for the Health Science Center, William F. Owen, Jr., MD, will discuss plans for better integrating the three UT health science campuses including operations at Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Memphis. He will also present an overview of his environmental assessment taken during his first 100 days as chancellor, as well as his impressions of opportunities and vulnerabilities for the health science center campuses. The meeting will last approximately an hour and a half, with time for questions and answers.

August 24, 2005
Thomas Weaver Aids Educational Lecture -- A Dean's Grand Rounds

What: Thomas Weaver Aids Educational Lecture--
A Dean's Grand Rounds
When: 12:00 p.m., Monday, October 10, 2005
Where: Wood Auditorium, UT Medical Center
Register Online

Speaking at this noon luncheon will be James Earl King Hildreth, PhD, MD, Director of the Meharry Center for Health Disparities Research in HIV. Dr. Hildreth is also Professor in both the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Meharry Medical College. The title of his lecture is "Lipid Rafts, Cholesterol and HIV: A New Concept for Chemical Condoms."

Dr. Hildreth graduated magna cum laude in chemistry from Harvard University in 1979. Then he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he received his doctorate in Immunology in 1982. Five years later he earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He spent 17 years as a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

In 2001, Dr. Hildreth was appointed chief of the Division of Research at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities for the National Institutes of Health. His research is based on his academic team's discovery that "cholesterol is active in HIV's ability to penetrate cells and that removing fatty material from a cell's membrane can block infection."

A list of Dr. Hildreth's current publications can be found on PubMED.

August 16 , 2005
Graduating Residents 2005

Congratulations to the 2005 Class of UTGSM Graduating Residents. Here is a list of some of our graduates and where they will be continuing their careers:

Department of Family Medicine

• Moses Benavides, MD - Private Practice, Sevierville, TN
• Stephen Cole, MD - Graduates in November 2005 and then becomes Fellow in Homeland Security at GSM
• Melody Coward, MD - Private Practice in New Tazewell, TN
• Nathan Gilbert, DO - Fellowship, Emergency Medicine, UTGSM
• Wendy May, MD - Private Practice in Clinton, TN
• Peter Sears, MD - Private Practice in Capistrano Beach, CA
• Clay and Staci Stalcup, MDs - Private Practice in Seymour, TN

Department of Surgery

• Trent, Pault, MD - Vascular Fellowship, UTGSM
• Benjamin R. Phillips, MD - Private Practice in Clyde, NC
• Gregory J. Mancini, MD - Laparoscopic Surgery Fellowship, University of Missouri
• Chad M. Copper, MD - Private Practice in Gainesville, GA

Department of Nuclear Medicine:

• Francis Isidoro, MD - Private Practice in Stockton MRI and Molecular Imaging, Stockton, CA
• Vijendra Rao, MD - Fellowship in PET at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Department of Radiology

• Richard Desruisseau, MD - Musculoskeletal Fellowship at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Charles Myers, MD - Body Imaging Fellowship at the Unvieisty of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
• Stacy Smith-Foley, MD - Women's Imaging Fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• James Stafford, MD - Musculoskeletal Fellowship at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Department of Pathology

• Jeff Johnson, MD - Fellowship in Forensic Pathology, Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office, Miami, FL
• Michael Harvey, MD - Fellowship in Cytopathology at Fletcher-Allen Healthcare in Burlington, VT

Department of Oral Surgery

• Tate Viehweg, DMD - Captain, US Army, Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, Tacoma, WA
• Mykle Jacobs, DDS - Fellowship in Maxillofacial Surgery, Oral and Facial Surgery Institute, St. Johns Mercy Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

• Bill Black, MD - Private Practice in Middlesboro, KY
• Bryan Myers, MD - Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya, Africa for one year and then private practice in Tullahoma, TN
• Kelley Stoddard, MD - Private Practice in Clarksburg, WV
  

Department of Anesthesiology

• Eric Foley, MD - Private Practice in Tucson, AZ
• Jason Keller, DO - Critical Care Fellowship in Gainesville, FL
• Virgil Kenneda, DO - Private Practice in Bristol, TN
• Justin Scott, MD - Private Practice in Norcross, GA
• Mac Varner, MD - Private Practice in Montgomery, AL
• Greg Whitaker, DO (Graduating July 2005) - Military Commitment in El Paso, TX
• Heath Wills, MD - Private Practice in Las Vegas, NV

Department of Medicine

• Samar Alsharif, MD - Hospitalist, Blount Memorial Hospital, Maryville, TN
• Hanna Chao, MD - Hospitalist, UT Medical Center, KIP, Knoxville, TN
• Deborah Franklin, DO - Hospitalist, UT Medical Center, KIP, Knoxville, TN
• Wes Hayes, MD - Faculty Internal Medicine, UT Medical Center, Knoxville, TN
• Shaun Jennings, MD - Private Practice in Covington, KY
• Jay Jhala, MD - Private Practice, East TN Medical Group, Maryville, TN
• Jennifer Mosley, MD - Hospitalist with StatCare, Knoxville, TN
• Priya Vazirani, MD - Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN

Department of Dentistry

• Grace S. Kang, DDS - Private practice in Atlanta, GA
• Jarrett M. Burr, DDS - Group Practice in Boone, NC

Transitional Year

• Corey Carpenter, MD - Anesthesiology Residency, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN
• James Doss, MD - Ophthalmology Residency, Eastern Virginia University, Norfolk, VA
• David Eckard, MD - Anesthesiology Residency, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN
• Ben Egner, MD - Radiology Residency, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN
• Chris Holt, MD - Anesthesiology Residency, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
• Marche Martin, MD - Anesthesiology Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Brian Shepherd, MD - Anesthesiology Residency, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN
• Aaron Stevenson, MD - Radiology Residency, UT Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, TN
• Steven Thomas, MD - Radiology Residency, Jackson, Mississippi
• Chip Wooldridge, MD - Radiology Residency, UT Center for the Health Sciences, Memphis, TN