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Office of Communications and Marketing

The Office of Communications and Marketing is the Medical Center’s institutional connection to audience groups within UMMC, across Mississippi and beyond. Through strategic communications and promotion initiatives, our office tells the Medical Center’s story through print and electronic publications, advertising, creative content and digital communications, including social media.

The office serves as the primary connection to the news media and facilitates all interactions with UMMC experts.

In addition, C&M provides a variety of services to the Medical Center community, including creative design services, marketing strategies, publicity for noteworthy activities, tours and event planning.

Our office can be reached by phone Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at (601) 984-1100, or by email at communications@umc.edu.

Our office is located on the first floor of the Holmes Learning Resources Center, across from the Office of the Vice Chancellor. The closest public parking lot to our office is in Lot D across from the Nelson Student Union, next to the School of Pharmacy. Walk through the School of Medicine, and we are right inside the LRC to the left.

Media guidelines and resources

Members of the professional news media who need assistance covering Medical Center activities or events or would like a UMMC expert to participate in a story should contact Patrice Guilfoyle, director of communications, at (601) 984-2841 or pguilfoyle@umc.edu.

All members of the media who visit any UMMC location must be accompanied by an escort from the Office of Communications and Marketing.

Our office takes the privacy of our patients very serious and strictly follows federal HIPAA guidelines - external site.

UMMC News

Video: Meyers family celebrates quintuplets’ first birthday

Video: Meyers family celebrates quintuplets’ first birthday

Monday, July 21, 2025

Franklin Walker, Carter James, Saylor Kate, Allie Ray and Nova Mae celebrated their first birthday earlier this month with family and friends in Laurel. The five, born at Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, spent their first weeks of life in neonatal intensive care at Children’s of Mississippi. Read More

MacKenzie Maier is living her dream of working as a registered nurse after a spinal cord injury.

Front and Center MacKenzie Maier

Monday, July 21, 2025

MacKenzie Maier hasn’t let anything stop her pursuit of a career in nursing – not childhood cancer or a spinal cord injury shortly before graduation from nursing school. Those experiences help her empathize with outpatient pediatric dermatology patients and their parents. Read More

To find a specific topic, event or person in the UMMC news archive, use the search bar below.

Social Media

UMMC maintains a vibrant and active presence on social media include accounts representing UMMC-related schools, departments, programs and various groups across Mississippi.

If you have any questions or concerns about a UMMC-associated social media account, please contact socialmedia@umc.edu.

Stay connected with UMMC through one of the primary institutional accounts listed below.

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CONSULT

CONSULT is the monthly e-newsletter of the University of Mississippi Medical Center. It offers feature articles about UMMC experts’ best advice for living a healthy and mindful life, cutting-edge clinical advancements and groundbreaking research occurring every day at the Medical Center.

The newsletter connects all readers - those who receive Medical Center services, live in Mississippi or who simply want to have a regular connection to state's leading clinical care provider, health science educator and biomedical discovery enterprise.

CONSULT is published monthly. Anyone may subscribe, at no cost, by providing their email address in the form linked to the right. Readers may unsubscribe at any time.