Research at UTGSM

The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine and The University of Tennessee Medical Center, as the region's only academic medical center, sponsors extensive research in both the clinical and laboratory settings. In that endeavor, we collaborate with the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), UT College of Veterinary Medicine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and other research institutions to seek answers to complex medical problems. We train students, physicians and scientists to become the researchers of the future and approach health care with the curiosity that will lead to
improvement in the lives of our patients.

Advance: Advancing Research from Lab to Life, our quarterly research publication, spotlights research programs at the UT Graduate School of Medicine and explains how the work of the institution’s researchers impacts healthcare in Tennessee and beyond.

In partnership with our colleagues at UTK, we are looking
at medical care delivery and how decisions are made, hoping
to enhance patient safety and access as well as reduce the cost
of medical care. With ORNL, we are looking at how images
are interpreted with an eye to eventual computerization. The
Institute of Biomedical Engineering is developing new devices and educational simulators for our physicians and scientists, so they
may effectively practice in the UT Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, improving their skills in a virtual setting.

All of this intellectual vigor requires hefty funding and support
from the institutions.Our academic medical center sustains this effort through its budget, grants from funding agencies and foundations and
through generous gifts from benefactors who understand the
crucial role medical research plays for our community and for
mankind.

Mitchell H. Goldman, MD
Assistant Dean for Research
Professor and Chair of Surgery

Research Laboratories

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