Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Ciara Shaver and other VUMC researchers were recently contributed to a Lancet article that suggested there are several new approaches that have been proven to increase the number of available organs for transplantation, including emerging techniques of rehabilitating organs that would have once been discarded as unusable.

The findings, authored by Department of Medicine Drs. Tina Hartert, Dawn Newcomb and colleagues, suggest a possible way to identify susceptibility to - and prevent the development of - asthma and other severe respiratory problems later in life.

Two early-career faculty members in the Department of Medicine's Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Drs. Scott McCall and Kevin Seitz, have been awarded prestigious fellowships by the Francis Family Foundation.

The recent study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Robert Lentz, MD (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), and colleagues.

He will receive the John W. Walsh PAR Award for Excellence, which honors individuals who embody compassion for patients, innovative spirit and outstanding leadership skills.

Translational research brings discoveries from the laboratory and preclinical studies to clinical trials and studies in humans.

Surgeons and teams with Vanderbilt Lung Transplant performed 99 lung transplants in 2024, the most ever in one year.

The study, co-authored by Department of Medicine's Jonathan Kropski, MD, and a team of VUMC researchers, was published today in Nature Genetics.