Year: 2015

There is growing evidence that disorders such as autism and schizophrenia involve deficits in what is called “multi-sensory processing,” the ability of the brain to properly integrate information coming in through the eyes, ears and other senses. Read More

Douglas Johnson, M.D. Douglas Johnson, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, has been named a recipient of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Foundation Young Investigator Awards. The two-year grant will provide $150,000 in funding for his research on survivorship among cancer patients who receive drugs… Read More

Joseph Smith, M.D. Joseph Smith Jr., M.D., professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was recently named the next editor of The Journal of Urology. Smith, the William L. Bray Professor of Urology, was selected for the role by the American Urological Association Board of… Read More

Alex Diamond, D.O., MPH, will participate in two national meetings to improve health and safety in youth sports. (Photo by John Russell) Alex Diamond, D.O., MPH, director of the Program for Injury Prevention in Youth Sports (PIPYS) and assistant professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation and… Read More

Third-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student Ishan Asokan has been selected as an inaugural member of the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) Fellowship for students addressing HIV/AIDS and health disparities. Read More

Vanderbilt’s Department of Cardiac Surgery has developed an Advanced Heart Failure Clinical and Translational Research Group that serves as a central research resource for advanced heart failure surgeons and cardiologists. Read More

  Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH Eric Skaar, Ph.D., MPH, the Ernest W. Goodpasture Professor of Pathology, has been elected to fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology. Skaar is one of seven current Vanderbilt faculty members who are AAM fellows. The 2,400-member academy is an… Read More

U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Deborah Birx, M.D., who oversees the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), updated the Vanderbilt community on AIDS relief efforts during a visit last week. (Photo by John Russell) “Incredible progress” has been made in the fight against AIDS, but in some countries, especially… Read More

James E.K. Hildreth, M.D. James E.K. Hildreth, M.D., has been named president and chief executive officer of Meharry Medical College. He will succeed Anna Cherrie Epps, M.D., who has served as head of the college since 2013. Hildreth is currently the dean of the University of California,… Read More

The Vanderbilt Symposium on Infection and Immunology will be held Friday, April 10, at the Student Life Center. Registration deadline is April 1. Keynote speakers and their topics are: Raul Andino, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco, “RNA virus population dynamics and the mechanisms of replication and adaptation;” Adrian Erlebacher,… Read More

Hands On: Clinical Safety is the training session to help Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees meet annual safety and competency requirements. The spring session will be held April 16-17 in the lobby of Langford Auditorium from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Check-in ends at 5 p.m. Stations available are: Mock… Read More

From left, Joshua Fessel, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, receives the 2015 Pharmacology Teaching Award from first-year Pharmacology graduate students Brian Bender, Blake Dieckmann and Stephanie Moore during last week’s 24th annual Joel G. Hardman Student-Invited Pharmacology Forum in Light Hall. (Photo… Read More

Frank Fish, M.D., with images from the new CartoUnivu system, which dramatically reduces X-ray exposure during certain heart procedures. (Photo by Joe Howell) Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has become the first hospital in the state to install a new imaging system that will help… Read More

For athletes in non-school-based sports, such as taekwondo and gymnastics, the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center offers return-to-play protocols for concussion injury. (iStock Photo) For more than four years, the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center has offered state-of-the-art care to athletes at all levels. Now the Concussion… Read More

Tennessee Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) presented the Above and Beyond Award to VUMC for its support of employees in the National Guard and Reserve. Attending the presentation were: (front row, left to right) Vanderbilt’s Donna Pavlick, Janet Rachel and Candy Lindsay, and (back… Read More

From left, Firas Wehbe, M.D., Ph.D., Stephany Duda, Ph.D., and Paul Harris, Ph.D., teach Vanderbilt’s free five-week Data Management for Clinical Research massive open online course (MOOC). More than 4,700 students from around the globe have received certificates from Vanderbilt’s free five-week Data… Read More

Exposing preschoolers to patterning activities builds the foundation for early math skills. Read More

Watch video of Professor David Weintraub discuss “Religions, Exoplanets, and Extraterrestrial Life” during the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt’s 2015 Spring Term on March 18th. Read More

Watch video of Professor Robert Barsky’s lecture “Romantic Poetry to the Writings of the Beat Generation: Youthful Passion for the Sublime and the Intoxicating” during the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Vanderbilt’s 2015 Spring Term on March 18th. Read More

In a message to the Vanderbilt University community March 16, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan Wente condemned vandalism at a fraternity house over the weekend and pledged that the matter would be fully investigated. Read More