JACKSON, Miss. – As it marks its two-year anniversary this month, the congenital heart surgery team at Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center has reason to celebrate. Not only is the program thriving with more than 550 operations completed, but the outcomes of those procedures are better than the national averageRead the story …
UMMC Congenital Heart Surgery Team Bests National Averages in Two Years
April 24, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – As it marks its two-year anniversary this month, the congenital heart surgery team at Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center has reason to celebrate. Not only is the program thriving with more than 550 operations completed, but the outcomes of those procedures are better than the national averageRead the story …
Multi-State Research Consortium Convenes At UMMC To Fight Cancer
April 24, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – A two-day conference at the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Cancer Institute is bringing together scientists and physicians from nine Southeastern U.S. centers to improve cancer research by designing population studies and drug clinical trials that include minorities and by building tissue banks that better represent the region’s diversity. The GMaP/BMaP RegionRead the story …
UM Launches Online Master of Health Care Administration Program
March 30, 2012 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration and University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Health Related Professions have launched a new part-time option for the online master of health care administration program. “The new three year, part-time option is a response to the demand we have seen from mid-career professionals,Read the story …
UMMC Professor Co-chairs National Medicaid/CHIP Advisory Group
March 30, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. James Martin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been named co-chair of the National Advisory Workgroup to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Medicaid/CHIP recipients. The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, recently appointed Martin and Dr. Mary Applegate, a pediatrician and theRead the story …
UMMC Professor Co-chairs National Medicaid/CHIP Advisory Group
March 29, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. James Martin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been named co-chair of the National Advisory Workgroup to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Medicaid/CHIP recipients. The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, recently appointed Martin and Dr. Mary Applegate, a pediatrician and theRead the story …
New Pharmacy Education, Research Building Brings Students and Faculty Under One Roof
February 20, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – University of Mississippi pharmacy students look forward to being able to stay in closer touch with classmates when they relocate to Jackson, thanks to a new facility being dedicated this week at the UM Medical Center The School of Pharmacy dedicates its new education and research building at 1:30 p.m. Thursday (Feb.Read the story …
Dr. A. Wallace Conerly, Former UMMC Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, Dies
January 10, 2012 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. A. Wallace Conerly, vice chancellor emeritus for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, died today in the UMMC hospital that bears his name. He was 76. Conerly, who served as vice chancellor from 1994 to 2003, had been hospitalized earlyRead the story …
Batson Children’s Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department, Trauma Unit Triples In Size
November 16, 2011 by
JACKSON, Miss. – Batson Children’s Hospital today dedicated its new Colonel Harland Sanders Children’s Emergency Department and the Selby and Richard McRae Children’s Trauma Unit, tripling the treatment area available for the state’s only Level 1 pediatric emergency and trauma center. Partially funded by individual $1 million gifts from the Colonel Harland Sanders and theRead the story …
MBJ: UMMC Professor Named to National Board
October 18, 2010 by
Dr. Grayson Norquist, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has been appointed to a national board of medical professionals and health policy experts who are charged with researching ways to improve the country’s healthcare quality. Read the story.