Kelly appointed OORA associate medical director
Sean Kelly, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), has been appointed associate medical director of the Office of Outpatient Referral Assistance (OORA).
Chastain awarded 2024 Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education
Cody Chastain, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), has received the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's 2024 Geoffrey Chazen Award for Innovation in Medical Education for his leadership and innovation in founding and directing the Department of Medicine's Excellence in Teaching Pathway.
Tick bites and alpha-gal syndrome focus of $3.5M research grant
Vanderbilt’s Scott Smith, MD, PhD, has been awarded a five-year, $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to study the human immune response to tick bites and its role in preventing tick-borne illnesses.
VUMC sees continued gains in research funding and reputation
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine continues to make impressive strides in research funding, rankings and faculty accomplishments, Dean Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, said Friday during the spring faculty meeting.
Talbot leads U.S. immunization committee
Infectious diseases researcher H. Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, has been appointed chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
VUMC’s John Koethe named director of the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research
John Koethe, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been appointed director and principal investigator of the Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (CFAR).
Koethe succeeds Simon Mallal, MBBS, the Major E.B. Stahlman Chair in Infectious Diseases and Inflammation at VUMC, who has directed the center since it was reorganized in 2015.
Person named to HIV leadership role
Vanderbilt infectious diseases specialist Anna Person, MD, has been named to a four-year term as vice-chair of the board of the HIV Medicine Association .
$51 million NIH grant brings ELVIS to VUMC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health. The seven-year, $51 million project is being led by Infectious Diseases Dr. Suman Das.
Report offers a way to overcome the severe lack of HIV providers
In a world wearied by COVID-19, it’s hard to remember the AIDS epidemic, which claimed the lives of nearly 450,000 Americans.
Immune system’s role in metabolic disease detailed in tissue atlas
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have published the largest single-site adipose tissue atlas known to date.