Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, associate professor of Medicine (Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology), has been apppointed director of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies Center of Excellence (FCE) at VUMC. Rachel Bonami, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine (Rheumatology and Immunology), will serve as associate director of the Vanderbilt FCE.

Among those advocating on Capitol Hill were three Department of Medicine faculty, Drs. Alvin Powers (Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism), Patrick Hu (Hematology and Oncology) and Hyun Song (Cardiovascular Medicine).

The three-year program will be led by Drs. Missy Scalise and Kaylin Craig, and will focus on training general internal medicine physicians with an emphasis on primary care.

Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, Professor of Medicine (Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism), is clinical leader of a new, two-year, $1 million grant from Eli Lilly and Company that will seek to understand and address gaps in obesity care.