Well + Good reporter Korin Miller interviewed Aaron Brinen, PsyD, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, for a story about why coffee tastes better when someone else makes it for you.
A HuffPost story, headlined “7 unexpected items ER doctors always take on vacation,” includes a suggestion from Joy Crook, MD, associate professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine: take tweezers.
WTVF News Channel 5 reporter Nikki Hauser interviewed trauma nurse Hannah Watson, BSN, RN, for a story about her saving a man’s life with CPR after he collapsed while shopping at an Aldi grocery store.
William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, about various infectious disease topics. Among the outlets and topics: The Washington Post (resignation of CDC COVID vaccine advisor Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos); Medical Economics (the importance of education and health literacy); Health, Fortune, NBC News and The Deseret News (new COVID strain 1.8.1); and Healthline and PolitiFact (new federal COVID vaccine guidelines).
The new COVID vaccine guidelines were also the subject of a story in New York magazine, which quotes Kathryn Edwards, MD, professor of Pediatrics, emerita, and Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program. Edwards was also quoted by STAT in a piece about the FDA widening the warning about possible heart inflammation for boys and young men who receive the COVID vaccine.
Stacie Dusetzina, PhD, professor of Health Policy, was quoted in several news stories about the price of prescription drugs, including in The Atlantic and by Bloomberg.
Medscapereporter Joanna Broder interviewed Alex Jahangir, MD, vice chair and professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, for a story about the shift from being a medical resident to becoming an attending doctor and the corresponding shifts in liability and accountability that go along with that.
Jessica Duran, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, was interviewed by Medscape freelance writer, Melissa Walton-Shirley, about spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) and also interviewed patient Nicholas Troutman.
WTVF News Channel 5 reporter Forrest Sanders, interviewed father and son, Coltin and Reace Bell to share their story of Reace donating his stem cells to help treat his father’s myeloid leukemia.
WSMV Channel 4 News and WTVF News Channel 5 interviewed Gitanjali Srivastava, MD, professor of Medicine, about the efficacy of GLP-1 drugs in weight loss and the impact of the FDA ban on patients.
Healthline reporter Gigen Mammoser interviewed Amanda Doran, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, for a story about a study on using a combination of two drugs to lower LDL cholesterol.
HealthTech senior editor Jordan Scott interviewed Keith Arnold, senior director of IT, and Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, associate professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology, for a story about VUMC’s Windows 11 migration. Here is the EdTechmagazine Q&A that goes with the story.