The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for continued support of the Brazil Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis network, or RePORT-Brazil.
To better align physician leadership in the ambulatory enterprise, Patty Wright, MD, professor of Medicine, will be transitioning from her role as Chief of Staff for Adult Ambulatory, Davidson County to the role of Chief Medical Officer for Adult Ambulatory Clinics. She will begin serving in this role on July 1.
A higher viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in plasma is associated with increased COVID-19 disease severity. How viral load affects the expression of host (immune response) genes in the upper airway, however, has not been probed in the context of early symptomatic disease.
More than a million people in the United States are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. One-fifth of them have been co-infected by the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which attacks the liver.
New research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators found that the household spread of flu during the 2021-2022 season was more than twice as high as it was prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cryptococcal meningitis, or CM, is a potentially fatal fungal infection of the brain and spinal fluid. It can develop after breathing in the spores of Cryptococcus fungi, which are found around the world. The infection is seen most often in people who are immunocompromised.
CM is characterized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a major cause of illness among people living with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection according to a Vanderbilt study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Elizabeth Phillips, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, an international expert on adverse reactions to medications, has been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies.
Penicillin allergy affects more than 25 million people in the United States (up to 1 in 10 Americans) and has been shown to lead to particularly poor health outcomes in pregnant women and surgical patients. It is also a public health threat, leading to antibiotic resistance and infections in hospitalized patients that can be life threatening.
The 2023 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching, Extraordinary Performance of Clinical Service, and Outstanding Contributions to Research were presented May 19 during the annual spring faculty meeting.
