8th Annual Young Women’s Leadership Symposium to be held at APSU, March 23rd

Clarksville, TN – Have you ever heard of Rosalind Franklin? In the early 1950s, the English chemist, working at King’s College London, produced an X-ray image that led scientists to finally identify the structure of DNA.

Nearly 10 years later, the famed Cambridge scientists James Watson and Francis Crick—not Franklin—were awarded the Nobel Prize for determining that structure.

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Clarksville’s Dr. Stephen Daugherty presents at the American Venous Forum

Clarksville, TN – Dr. Stephen Daugherty, the medical director of VeinCare Centers of Tennessee in Clarksville, Tennessee, presented his leading clinical experience treating pelvic venous congestion syndrome at the annual meeting of the American Venous Forum (AVF) on February 25th.

The American Venous Forum is an organization of physicians, mostly academic vascular surgeons, with interests in venous disorders. Dr. Daugherty was the first American to report a series of patients with pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) due to compression of the veins of the pelvis two years ago when he previously reported at the AVF meeting.

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