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.
Dr. Jane Freedman will succeed Wright Pinson as Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer in July 2025.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Calgary, co-led by Dr. Xingyi Guo (Epidemiology), have developed a novel computational genetics approach to enhance the discovery of disease risk genes.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, including Department of Medicine Drs. Alex Bick (senior author), Brett Heimlich, Brent Ferrell, Ashwin Kishtagari and Michael Savona, have identified key factors that contribute to the clonal growth of abnormal blood cells experienced by roughly one in 10 people over age 70.
Eleven current Vanderbilt University faculty members are included in the 2024 list of “Highly Cited Researchers” around the world whose papers have been cited most frequently by other scientists.
Information was gathered by investigators with the Reproductive Health After Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (REACT) study, an initiative led by Andreana Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology.
Three grants, totaling over $22 million, were awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and will be led by a team of VUMC investigators, including Department of Medicine Drs. Jonathan Kropski and Margaret Salisbury.
