Author: Bill Snyder
VUMC’s Jay Jerome honored by Microscopy Society of America
Mar. 18, 2024—Jerome is the 2024 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award, which honors “preeminent senior scientists for a long-standing record of achievement in the field of microscopy and microanalysis.”
VUMC’s Kripalani joins AHRQ Advisory Council
Mar. 18, 2024—The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Council helps guide national priorities for health services research that promotes improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of clinical practice, and which provides equitable access to health care.
Genetic Counseling Research Symposium debuts on April 5
Mar. 12, 2024—The Master of Genetic Counseling (MGC) degree program at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) will hold its first Genetic Counseling Research Symposium April 5 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. in room 202, Light Hall.
Dmochowski promoted to Vice President and Executive Medical Director of Perioperative Services
Mar. 12, 2024—Roger Dmochowski, MD, MMHC, professor of Urology, Surgery, and Obstetrics & Gynecology and director of the Section of Female Pelvic Medicine, has been promoted to Vice President and Executive Medical Director of Perioperative Services at Vanderbilt University Hospital. He will function full time in this role.
School of Medicine in top 10 in NIH funding: survey
Mar. 11, 2024—Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ranked 10th in the nation in total research grant support provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal year 2023, according to figures compiled by the nonprofit Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
Ruderfer to direct new Center for Digital Genomic Medicine
Mar. 8, 2024—Douglas Ruderfer, PhD, whose research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center explores the intersection of genomics, biomedical informatics and psychiatry, has been named director of a newly established Center for Digital Genomic Medicine.
Blood mutations increase risk for acute kidney injury: study
Mar. 7, 2024—A U.S.-Canadian research collaboration led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center has identified common, age-associated changes in the blood as a risk factor for acute kidney injury, which occurs in more than 1 in 5 hospitalized adults worldwide.
Dame Frances Ashcroft to deliver March 21 Vanderbilt Prize Lecture
Mar. 4, 2024—Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft, recipient of the 2023 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, will deliver her Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 21, in 208 Light Hall.
Vanderbilt’s Yash Choksi and Fabian Bock honored by the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation
Mar. 4, 2024—Vanderbilt's Yash Choksi, MD, recently received the 2024 Research Investigator Early Career Faculty Award from the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation and Fabian Bock, MD, PhD, won the society's Research Scholar Award.
Kripalani named VP for Health System Sciences
Mar. 1, 2024—Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, a nationally recognized leader in patient-centered and health systems research, has been named Vice President for Health System Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective March 1. In his new role, Kripalani will help lead and support activities by VUMC, as an academic learning health system, to implement and evaluate innovations...
Study targets nicotine craving in schizophrenia
Feb. 29, 2024—Vanderbilt's Heather Burrell Ward, MD, has received a five-year, $928,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to test whether an externally applied magnetic field can reduce nicotine craving in people with schizophrenia.
VUMC part of major step to achieving precision medicine
Feb. 19, 2024—An analysis of genomic data from nearly 250,000 participants in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has identified more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variations, nearly 4 million of which have potential health consequences.