After serving as the department’s interim leader, Eric Shinohara, MD, MSCI, vice chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been named as the department’s chair.
Satya Das, MD, has been awarded a $300,000 grant for a two-year period by the Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation.
Dr. Birchmore will be presented with the Wolcott Award and a plaque on February 19, 2020 by the VHA National Governance Board in Crystal City, Arlington, VA.
Neil Osheroff, PhD, was elected president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) and will serve from January 2020-December 2021.
Justin Balko, PharmD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and leader of Molecular Oncology at the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has received a $100,000 research grant from the Mary Kay Foundation.
Dan Roden, MD, Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been awarded the 2019 Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences by The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Center, Ohio State officials…
The Kidney Cancer Association is recognizing the research accomplishments and leadership achievements of W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, with its top honor, the Eugene P. Schonfeld Award.
Thomas Wang, MD, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been appointed chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, effective February 2020.
Nancy Brown, MD, Hugh J. Morgan Professor and chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Medicine, was recently elected a Master of the American College of Physicians.
The recipients of the 2019 Louisa Nelson Awards include a poet, a community activist and Vanderbilt cancer researcher Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, Cornelius Abernathy Craig Professor of Medicine.
