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| 6/10/2013 | UMMC marks 50th anniversary of world's first lung transplant | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – When Dr. James D. Hardy and his surgical team became the first to successfully transplant a lung from one human to another on June...
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| 6/17/2013 | UMMC promotions and tenure
More than 50 current Medical Center faculty will begin the 2013-14 academic year with a promotion in rank, newly granted tenure, or both."The... |
| 6/5/2013 | UMMC professor elected to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. James N. Martin Jr., professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of maternal fetal medicine, has been unanimously...
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| May |
| 5/27/2013 | Neuroscientist researcher and educator recognized with UMMC's first Regions Bank TEACH Prize
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Kimberly Simpson, a neuroscientist and associate professor of neurobiology and anatomical sciences, this month received the...
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| 5/24/2013 | Local students among record number of graduates at UMMC's 57th Commencement | (PDF)
From the University of Mississippi Medical Center Division of Public Affairs For more information contact the Division of Public Affairs at (601)... |
| 5/13/2013 | UMMC a big part of Mission of Mercy 2013
The Mississippi Dental Association, in partnership with University of Mississippi Medical Center, sponsored a Mission of Mercy event in Pearl, MS... |
| 5/9/2013 | Mississippi's First-Ever Medical-Legal Partnership to empower people living with HIV/AIDS | (PDF)
(Jackson, Miss.) – Today, the Mississippi Center for Justice and the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) announce a medical-legal... |
| 5/8/2013 | The Band Perry Concert raises funds, awareness for alzheimer's research at UMMC's Mind Center
The Band Perry shook Jackson's Thalia Mara Hall on Sunday evening with a roaring country concert to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s... |
| April |
| 4/25/2013 | Children's Hospital Heart Surgery Program celebrates milestone 1,000 procedure | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Batson Children’s Hospital’s congenital heart surgery program recently completed its 1,000th operation on four-month-old McKinley...
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| 4/24/2013 | UMMC to host annual meeting of Society of Black Academic Surgeons | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – More than 100 people are registered to attend the annual meeting of the Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS), hosted this...
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| 4/19/2013 | Free oral cancer screening det for Monday, Tuesday
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi has one of the highest smoking rates in the nation, with 26 percent of its residents lighting up regularly. But even... |
| 4/18/2013 | UMMC Pediatrician Hannah Gay named to Time Magazine's Time 100 | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – TIME named HIV specialist Dr. Hannah Gay, UMMC associate professor of pediatrics, to the 2013 TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list...
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| 4/12/2013 | Woodward appointed to national school accrediting body | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. LouAnn Woodward, the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s associate vice chancellor for Health Affairs, has been...
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| 4/9/2013 | 66 graves unvcovered at UMMC linked to asylum | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – With the recent discovery of 66 unidentified graves at the former site of a mental institution, Mississippi State University, the...
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| 4/4/2013 | Mississippi native returns home to take over rural physicians scholarship program | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – When Jennifer Wahnee Sherman entered Mississippi State University about 20 years ago, more people lived in her residence hall than...
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| March |
| 3/21/2013 | UMMC Administration notifies patients of breach of protected health and personal information | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – A laptop computer missing from a University of Mississippi Medical Center clinical area has prompted UMMC officials to issue notice... |
| 3/14/2013 | UMMC Transplant team completes first liver case in 22 years | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – In an operation that gave a Jackson mother a new chance at life, a team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center earlier...
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| 3/13/2013 | Insurance company presents $23,000 to Firends of Children's Hospital | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Employees from SouthGroup Insurance recently presented $23,000 to Friends of Children’s Hospital’s chairman of the board, Sara Ray,... |
| 3/13/2013 | The Band Perry to perform benefit concert for The MIND Center | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi music lovers will have a unique opportunity to hear one of country’s music’s hottest bands and support Alzheimer’s... |
| 3/3/2013 | Researchers describe first 'functional HIV cure' in an infant
JACKSON, Miss. – A team of HIV experts from Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of...
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| February |
| 2/19/2013 | Taste of the U to draw hundreds of revelers, dozens of competitors and one, 7-foot celebrity chef | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Food, drinks and costumes from far-flung volcanic islands to nearby Louisiana swamps will transform the Jackson Medical Mall into a... |
| 2/12/2013 | Kidney transplants hit UMMC record in 2012, liver service to restart this year | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Teams at the University of Mississippi Medical Center transplanted a record 103 kidneys last year, a figure they could surpass in... |
| 2/1/2013 | AAEM selects Jones for Young Physicians Board | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Jonathan S. Jones, assistant professor of emergency medicine, has been elected as an at-large member to the American Academy of...
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| January |
| 1/25/2013 | Members Exchange Credit Union donates to Children's Hospital | (PDF)
Employees of the Members Exchange Federal Credit Unions in Ridgeland, Clinton and Pearl present Dr. Rick Barr, Suzan B. Thames Professor and Chair... |
| 1/22/2013 | UMMC telecasts live heart-repair procedures to international conference | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Makram Ebeid and a team at the University of Mississippi Medical Center performed two catheterized heart-repair procedures on...
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| 1/8/2013 | BankPlus and Nickelodeon star present check to Friends of Children's Hospital | (PDF)
With the help of Nickelodeon star SpongeBob SquarePants, BankPlus presented a check for $148,785.40 to Friends of Children’s Hospital, representing...
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| 1/7/2013 | Gov. Phil Bryant, UM Chancellor Dan Jones break ground for new school of medicine building | (PDF)
JACKSON, Miss. – Governor Phil Bryant, University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones and other state and local dignitaries unveiled plans and broke...
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