The testing is for younger patients who may be at risk for inherited cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia syndromes. Without treatment, younger patients may develop other serious cardiac disorders such as heart failure or life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.

He is the first from VUMC to receive the award, which recognizes “champions” of health professions education who have advanced the VA’s health care education mission.

Emily Brown, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Public Health), has been named the medical director of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Discharge Care Center, an around-the-clock call center comprised of a multidisciplinary team that serves as a centralized resource to aid adult patients navigating the health care system after discharge. Her new role was effective July 1.

Scanner combines fluoroscopy, a type of X-ray imaging that allows real-time visualization of body structures, with analytical software to visually document the lung’s air flow as color heat maps.

Vanderbilt’s adult heart, lung, liver and kidney transplant programs individually had record fiscal years, with 150 heart transplants, 90 lung transplants, 180 liver transplants and 333 kidney transplants. In addition, adult transplant teams performed three heart/lung transplants and four kidney/pancreas transplants. Heidi Schaefer, MD (Nephrology and Hypertension), is the medical director of Adult Solid Organ Transplant.

With a $3 million research grant, Henrique Serezani, PhD, Associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will investigate how altered metabolism in diabetes affects inflammation and sepsis.

Christianne Roumie, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Public Health) and research health scientist at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, has been named the director of a new Health Systems Research Center of Innovation (COIN) for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Sweeping data integration and clinical trial simulations are needed to help decide which targets to prioritize in researching new tuberculosis treatment regimens. Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, the Addison B. Scoville, Jr. Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is one of four co-principal investigators for the five-year multicenter project.

In late June, Jennifer Gaddy, PhD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, was named one of seven 2024 grant recipients of the Next Gen Pregnancy Initiative at the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and one of three 2024 Discovery Research Grant recipients by the March of Dimes.

Tracy Frech, MD, MSCI, has been named to direct the division of Rheumatology and Immunology in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and will assume the new role Sept. 1.