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Meharry Building Projects Create Jobs

Meharry Building Projects Create Jobs

NASHVILLE, TN — The 80,000 square-foot campus center under construction at Meharry Medical College is a boon not only for students, but for the entire North Nashville Community. More than 1,000 people will be employed during [...]

Meharry Grad Blends Healthy Dose of Medicine and Entertainment

Meharry Grad Blends Healthy Dose of Medicine and Entertainment

NASHVILLE, TN— Dr. Rani G. Whitfield, M.D., is one of Meharry Medical College’s many crown jewel graduates. He’s a board certifed family physician with a Certicate of Added Qualication in sports medicine, and has become known [...]

Technological Advances Bring Dental and Medical Procedures to Life for Students

Technological Advances Bring Dental and Medical Procedures to Life for Students

NASHVILLE, TN — Medical and dental simulation is increasingly playing a more important role in the way doctors, dentists and other health professionals are trained. Because modern health care is constantly evolving, and new and complex [...]

Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research

Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research

The Center for AIDS Health Disparities Research (CAHDR) at Meharry Medical College conducts research and other scholarly activities designed to identify, understand, and eliminate factors responsible for the profoundly disproportionate burden of AIDS and HIV infection [...]

Metro Hospital Authority Looks for Prescriptions to Heal Hospital Woes

Metro Hospital Authority Looks for Prescriptions to Heal Hospital Woes

The future of Nashville General Hospital will be up for discussion on Nov.27 at the monthly meeting of the Metro Nashville Hospital Authority. It’s the next step in a process that has involved much public input [...]

Tennessee Doctors Visit Malawi

Tennessee Doctors Visit Malawi

By Alvin Singh II MURFREESBORO, TN — From activism to Presidency Joyce Banda has been busy for the past three months and nothing seems to stop her momentum. Since the sudden passing of former President Bingu [...]

Researchers Use Mega Database to Identify Health Disparities Hotspots

Researchers Use Mega Database to Identify Health Disparities Hotspots

It’s the database of all databases—literally. Researchers at Meharry are taking health disparities prevention and intervention to a new level with a database designed to, for the first time, give medical providers a complete picture of [...]

Seniors Receive Free Screenings and Dentures through ‘Adoption Program’

Seniors Receive Free Screenings and Dentures through ‘Adoption Program’

At 76-years-old, Queen Crumb doesn’t get to the dentist very often. “I usually don’t see a dentist, only when I have a tooth ache,” Crumb said. So when she had a chance to have her teeth [...]

Time Capsule Discovered on Meharry’s Campus

Time Capsule Discovered on Meharry’s Campus

Copper Box Contains Historical Documents from 1952  Meharry’s past collided with its future in a big way in early April when construction workers building the new Alumni Hall unearthed a time capsule sealed behind the building [...]

Meharry Enters Building Phase

Meharry Enters Building Phase

Cal Turner Family Foundation Gives $3 Million for New Campus Center  Meharry Medical College is ushering in a new era of growth with approximately $35 million in renovations and new construction planned over the next 24 to [...]

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