Department of Medicine Drs. Alexander Bick (Genetic Medicine) and Jonathan Kropski (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Dooley's three-year term on the board of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) begins in May.
Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition), has been named the associate director of Transplant Research Informatics and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), has been named associate director for Translational Research.
The program recently celebrated a milestone — its 2,000th heart transplant.
Numerous additions and appointments during the past year are enhancing Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s missions.
With funding from the newly established Sarah Kyle Anorexia Nervosa Research Foundation, the researchers hope to identify biomarkers that will point to novel targets for prevention and treatment.
Currently, methods to detect early, obesity-related accumulation of fat in the liver other than a liver biopsy — the surgical removal of liver tissue for microscopic examination — are limited. But there is hope.
Department of Medicine Drs. Russell Rothman, Jonathan Casey, Lyndsay Nelson and Lindsay Mayberry are principal investigators of four new awards totaling $26.4 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Nine faculty in four different divisions are among the 25 new faculty selected for membership in Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Academy for Excellence in Education.
Jonathan Casey, MD, MSCI (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), is co-principal investigator of a recently funded study by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on breathing, speaking and swallowing after critical illness.
