04/17/2026
The Tennessee General Assembly has approved $311 million in funding for a new College of Medicine Interdisciplinary Building on our Memphis campus.
The 275,000- to 300,000-square-foot facility will allow us to expand our medical school class from 175 to 250 students per cohort and grow the Physician Assistant Program from 30 to 60 students annually. Over its first five years, the building is projected to help graduate an additional 1,450 health care professionals, a direct response to Tennessee's projected need for 6,000 more physicians by 2030.
"I think this is one of those landmark events at a college of medicine," said UTHSC College of Medicine Executive Dean Michael Hocker, MD, MHS.