William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, Prevention (most common COVID symptoms); NBC News (new COVID variant called XEC); Health (can COVID cause hearing loss?); WebMD (Noravax COVID vaccine); WSMV Channel 4 News (effectiveness of flu shots); and WTVF News Channel 5 (avoiding exposure to raccoon roundworm disease).
KAIT, a television station in Jonesboro, Arkansas, sent reporter Macy Davis to interview Billy Hudson, PhD, director of the Center of Matrix Biology, and Julie Hudson, MD, associate professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Pediatric Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, for a story about the Aspirnaut program and the opening of a college-level science lab at Wynne High School in Wynne, Arkansas. The Hudsons co-founded the Aspirnaut program in 2006.
Healthline reporter Gigen Mammoser interviewed Hilary Tindle, MD, founding director of ViTAL, the Vanderbilt Center for Tobacco, Addiction and Lifestyle, for a story about a new study on the top three ways to stop smoking, based on the latest evidence.
Yahoo Life reporter Natalie Rahhal interviewed Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, chief of Obesity Medicine, for a story about the CDC’s newly-released obesity prevalence data. The Wall Street Journal also quoted Srivastava in a story headlined, “Is your weight healthy? BMI alone can’t answer that question.”
Seth Karp, MD, H. William Scott Jr. Professor, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and former director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, recently testified before a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on national organ donation system reform. He was quoted by Politico (scroll down to “In Congress” section); Bloomberg Law and Medpage Today.
Time magazine reporter Stacey Colino interviewed Shabnam Sarker, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, for a story, headlined “Why does everyone seem to have IBS now?” about why IBS has been trending for a while on social media with the slogan “hot girls have IBS.”
Nature posted a story headlined, “Doctors cured her sickle-cell disease. So why is she still in pain?” that quotes Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics.
NBC News national correspondent Kathy Park came to Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks to interview Vandana Abramson, MD, Donna S. Hall Chair in Breast Cancer, for a story about the breast cancer drug Kisqali, which received expanded approval from the FDA. Abramson was also quoted about the FDA expansion by HealthDay.
Tina Hartert, MD. MPH, professor of Medicine, was quoted in a Wired piece about how to identify the children most at risk from RSV.
NBC News reporter Erika Edwards interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about enterovirus D68, a respiratory virus spreading across the U.S. that sometimes causes paralysis in children. The New York Post also published an article quoting Creech.
www.PositivelyPositive.ca, an HIV/AIDS awareness site, reprinted VUMC reporter Paul Govern’s VUMC News story about Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, receiving a MERIT Award (Method to Extend Research in Time Award) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
