Aaron Aday, MD, co-director of Vascular Medicine at Vanderbilt Health, is the first and corresponding author of the paper, which was published May 27 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Katherine Cahill, MD, Medical Director of Clinical Asthma Research is principal investigator of the study.

Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been named Chair of the Department of Medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School and Physician-in-Chief at Brown University Health in Providence, Rhode Island. Her last day at Vanderbilt Health, where she holds the Addison B. Scoville Jr. Chair in Medicine, will be Sept. 30.

Corey Bolton, PsyD, and Consuelo Wilkins, MD, (Geriatric Medicine) have published one of the largest positron emission tomography (PET) brain imaging studies to date exploring ethnoracial differences in people with cognitive impairment.

The Ellis Island Medals of Honor rank among the nation’s most renowned awards, officially recognized by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with each year’s recipients listed in the Congressional Record.

A multi-institutional group has identified a “signature” of metabolic molecules associated with exercise-induced physiologic deficits that, when released into the bloodstream, signal heightened heart failure risk. Eric Gamazon, PhD, and Ravi Shah, MD, Department of Medicine faculty, are part of the research group.

Bryan Harris, MD, MPH, MMHC, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Executive Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs and Business Development in the Department of Medicine, has been named to serve as Executive Vice President for Shared Clinical Services, which includes the areas of Pharmacy, Laboratory Services, Radiology Services and the associated Clinical Service Centers. He will assume this role on July 1.

Multisite consortium analyzed human pancreatic islet cells from nondiabetic organ donors in innovative method to better understand pathophysiology of diabetes. Marcela Brissova, PhD, (Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism) is a co-corresponding author of the Nature Communications study.

An estimated 200,000 people in the United States have lupus, and about 80% of them experience “brain fog,” cognitive problems that impair learning, memory and attention. A new clinical trial offers hope for them.

Kathryn Lindley, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Health Women’s Heart Center, and one author of a new consess study report, note that current clinical preventive services miss many opportunities to identify and manage risk for these women, particularly after pregnancy.