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.
Jonathan Casey, MD, MSCI (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), is co-principal investigator of a recently funded study by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study the effect of breathing tube size on breathing, speaking and swallowing after critical illness.
The Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science is pleased to announce the appointments of Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI, as the Associate Director of Transplant Research Informatics, and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD, as the Associate Director for Translational Research. Johanna Cimilluca, MPH, MS, DrPH, will take on the role of Administrative Officer for the Center.
Three grants, totaling over $22 million, were awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and will be led by a team of VUMC investigators, including Department of Medicine Drs. Jonathan Kropski and Margaret Salisbury.
Russell Rothman, MD, MPP (Internal Medicine and Public Health), is first author of a study recently published in JAMA Network Open that found montelukast, a drug commonly prescribed to prevent and treat asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, does not speed recovery from symptoms of mild to moderate COVID-19.
A recent VUMC-led study of relatives of patients with familial pulmonary fibrosis (FPF), a form of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) that runs in families, studied the risk factors for progressive early disease in a group of asymptomatic relatives of patients with FPF.
According to a study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by Tina Hartert, MD, MPH (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), and colleagues, children who were raised in areas negatively affected by a government housing policy from the 1930s known as ‘redlining’ are still paying a price in the form of higher risk of developing asthma.
The clinic, led by Drs. Elizabeth Phillips and Cosby Stone, has seen groundbreaking discoveries in personalized care and diagnosis for allergy, especially delayed drug allergy, and has advanced discoveries in the optimal process to test patients for drug allergies.
