For many Jackson-area families, three meals a day aren’t a given, and help with groceries is appreciated. UMMC’s EversCare does just that on the first Wednesday of each month. On April 21, the tote bag of edibles given to all comers came with something extra: the offer of a free COVID-19 shot.

Dr. Kenneth Bennett, who presented the annual address known as the Last Lecture on April 21, became a doctor almost 60 years ago, but his ideas about how to treat patients began taking shape much earlier, in the company of his father. For him, they are expressed in a painting created more than 70 years before he was born.

As you grow older, it becomes more difficult to focus on objects close to you. Grabbing reading glasses is a solution for some people, but Dr. Roya Attar, UMMC optometrist, offers another route: fitting a patient with contacts to achieve monovision, or blended vision, to lessen the effects of presbyopia, or loss of “near” vision.

UMMC garnered 82 new, continuing, transferred and revised grants and awards from January-March 2021, totaling $20,830,188. Click Read More to see which Medical Center investigators received the largest new and competitive renewal awards during the quarter.

Several interesting events are scheduled for the upcoming week at the Medical Center.

Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following addition to its faculty and leadership staff.

Medical Center leadership is proud to acknowledge those employees who will celebrate service anniversaries during the week of April 26-May 2.