Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

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.

The grant will help establish the Vanderbilt-coordinated Virus Characterization Center and support a Vanderbilt University Medical Center research team venturing to broadly characterize the role of viruses in human health and disease.

Department of Medicine Drs. Alexander Bick (Genetic Medicine) and Jonathan Kropski (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI (Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition), has been named the associate director of Transplant Research Informatics and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), has been named associate director for Translational Research.

Numerous additions and appointments during the past year are enhancing Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s missions.

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.