Timothy Blackwell, MD, Rudy W. Jacobson Professor of Pulmonary Medicine and director of the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, is leaving Vanderbilt University Medical Center to chair the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan. He assumes his new role on March 1.
Margaret Salisbury, MD, MS, a leader in the study and treatment of interstitial lung diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a Young Physician-Scientist Award from the Council of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for “notable achievements” in research.
Vanderbilt's Stokes Peebles, MD, has been appointed to the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council.
Department of Medicine Drs. Jonathan Brown (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Matthew Semler (Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) are among three VUMC physicians who have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies.
The findings are the culmination of more than 25 years of research, and represent the group’s “opus magnus,” said Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, the paper’s senior author.
Gordon Bernard, MD, was honored at a reception on July 19 in recognition of his contributions to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for more than 40 years.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a $7 million, five-year funding award from PCORI (Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute) to compare two sedatives used to place breathing tubes in the emergency department (ED) or intensive care unit (ICU).
Pregnant women previously labeled with a penicillin allergy who receive allergy testing are often able to disprove the allergy, which can allow them to receive better treatments for common infections during pregnancy and delivery.
