NewsChannel 5 interviewed Kelly Schlendorf, MD, medical director of Adult Heart Transplant; Ashish Shah, MD, professor and chair of Cardiac Surgery; and Aaron Williams, MD, assistant professor of Cardiac Surgery, and a double transplant recipient for a story on discussing VUMC transplant center setting the world record for heart transplants in 2024 with174 cardiac transplants in a year.
Kelly Schlendorf, MD, Director, Heart Failure and Transplant, and Medical Director, Adult Heart Transplant Program, was quoted by WKRN discussing the Vanderbilt Transplant Center setting the world record for heart transplants in 2024 with174 cardiac transplants in a year.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at The New York Times (falling childhood vaccination rates), Healthline (best foods for winter immunity), Voice of American (HMPV cases in China), NBC News TODAY (flu surge) and HuffPost (cities most likely to catch a respiratory illness).
NBC News quoted Todd Rice, MD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care, and director of the medical intensive care unit for a story on the flu surge happening across the country.
Raymond Romano, PhD, MPH, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, nurse practitioner, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, was quoted in Food & Wine for a story about a study that found habitually skipping breakfast is linked to cognitive decline and neurodegeneration in older adults.
Peter Martin, MD, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is quoted in The Washington Post explaining how alcohol effects increase with age as the brain changes.
Becker’s Hospital Review, WSMV, The Mountain Press, WTVF, WTVF at 5am, Cardiovascular Business, and Axios covered Vanderbilt Transplant Center setting a world record by performing 174 adult and pediatric heart transplants in 2024.