2018 Outstanding Alumna Award Winner (posthumous)
Coming from a family of health care professionals, Dr. Satterfield dedicated her career to educating future physicians. She majored in Biochemistry graduating from Rice University in 1977 and then in 1981 with her medical degree from the UTHSC, where she excelled academically being inducted in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.
In 1985, she received a Masters of Public Health from the University of Miami. She received a Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard University in 1990.
Dr. Satterfield joined the UTHSC Department of Preventive Medicine in 1993 as an assistant professor. Her students held her in high regard, and she served as the co-director of the Evidence Based Medicine curriculum for fourth-year medical students and curriculum director for the Epidemiology Principles in Clinical Medicine course for first-and-second-year medical students. Dr. Satterfield also served as co-director for the Clinical Trials course in the Master of Epidemiology Program and was a member of the Medical School Admission Committee for 17 years. She was a mentor to many, often hosting medical students at her own home for events such as orientation.
Throughout her career at UTHSC, Dr. Satterfield was active in clinical research, serving as co-investigator for the Memphis site of the Women’s Health Initiative from 1993 until 2010; principal investigator for a National Institutes of Health osteoporosis trial; and as reviewer for the UTHSC Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Satterfield was named to associate professor in 2011 and continued to work at UTHSC in research and education until her death in 201
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