Year in Review 2024: Appointments strengthen Medical Center’s missions
Numerous additions and appointments during the past year are enhancing Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s missions.
Tracy Frech named director of the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
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.
Annual Rheumatology Fellowship Program “Rheum Madness” Results!
Congratulations to the Vanderbilt Rheumatology Fellowship Program in this year's Rheum Madness tournament for their victory! This year’s team consisted of two VUSM medical students Michael Libre and Yash Pershad, first year fellow Dr. Genessis Maldonado, and Dr. Tyler Reese.
Michael and Yash have now served up two victories for the rheumatology division as they are also currently the subspecialty clinic directors at Shade Tree.
Rheumatology Kudos March 2024
Congratulations to the trainees in the Bonami lab for their recently accepted manuscripts and invited talks relating to their work in beta cell regulation and type 1 diabetes.
Accepted Manuscripts:
Osteoblast’s Appetites Tied to Bone Health
Osteoblasts of old and young mice differ in metabolic activity that underlies degenerative porosity.
Divergent T Cell Activity Holds Clues to Juvenile Arthritis
Blood assays in children with and without the disease show separate paths in T cell differentiation.
Risk Score Sheds Light on Lupus Diagnosis
Study demonstrates the usefulness of phenotype risk scoring in systemic lupus erythematosus cases.
VUMC Rheumatologist Jim Gore began writing a symphony 20 years ago. It just had its debut.
Rheumatologist Jim Gore, MD, sat near the stage at McAfee Concert Hall at Belmont University in May listening to the Tennessee Youth Symphony playing the wistful second movement of the “Kentucky 1862” symphony that pays homage to the rolling hills of Kentucky during the Civil War.