NBC News reporter Kaitlin Sullivan interviewed Sonya Reid, MD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, for a story about a new breast cancer study that found not every demographic is seeing as large of improvements in mortality rates, despite huge strides being made in treatment options.
Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, chief of Obesity Medicine, was quoted in stories in Women’s Health and the Daily Mail about Ozempic and in Medscape about doctors seeking additional training in helping patients with obesity.
Deepak Gupta, MD, associate professor of Medicine, was quoted in a New York Times story, “The Heart-Healthy Diet Hardly Anyone is Talking About,” and Panamericana Televisión.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, The Epoch Times (H5N1 influenza); AARP (RSV in older adults); Prevention (at home COVID tests); and the Nashville Banner (mpox support center in Democratic Republic of Congo). The Banner story also quotes Inga Saknite, MD, adjoint assistant professor of Dermatology, Eric Tkaczyk, MD, assistant professor of Dermatology.
Michael DeBaun, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics, was quoted in a Reuters story about gene therapy for sickle cell.
Popular Science reporter Lauren Leffer interviewed Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, director, Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology, for a story about his Science Immunology paperon how fever impacts immune cells.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News, a national syndicator of medical news, released a story on binge drinking and heart risk featuring Daniel Munoz, MD, executive medical director and chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute.
The National Desk national reporter Geoffrey Harris interviewed Shravani Durbhakula, MD, assistant professor of Anesthesiology in the Division of Pain Medicine, for a story about a new class of potentially deadly synthetic opioids called nitazines suddenly appearing around the globe, including in the U.S., and scientists are rushing to figure out how to detect it in the drug supply.
