Consultant Live reporter Chelsie Derman interviewed Margaret Adgent, PhD, research associate professor of Health Policy, for a story about her Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology study on gestational diabetes and childhood lung function at age 8-9.
Axios Nashville mentioned that Vanderbilt Health’s cardiac transplant teams performed 200 heart transplants in 2025 — the largest total in history, eclipsing last year’s world record of 174 adult and pediatric heart transplants.
Today quoted William Schaffner, MD, professor of Health Policy, in a story about surging norovirus cases driven by an ultracontagious variant that hand sanitizer won’t kill. People published a similar article quoting Schaffner.
WSMV4 reporter Brendan Tierney interviewed pediatric endocrinologist Ashley Shoemaker, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt about Prader-Willi syndrome and the impact drug trials can have on treatment options.
NBC News national reporter Erika Edwards interviewed Kathryn Edwards, MD, professor emerita of Pediatrics, for a story about her JAMA Network Open study on global whooping cough cases.
Kathryn Edwards, MD, professor emerita of Pediatrics, was also quoted in a STAT News story about a new study that sheds light on what might cause the rare COVID-19 vaccine side effect, myocarditis.
Healio reporter Isabella Hornick covered the NEJM study from Jonathan Casey, MD, and Matthew Semler, MD, both associate professors of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, that found doctors treating seriously ill patients in an emergency setting may want to give the sedative etomidate, rather than ketamine, while placing a breathing tube. The Randomized Trial of Sedative Choice for Intubation is the first multicenter trial to demonstrate significant cardiovascular risks of high doses of ketamine (low blood pressure, arrhythmia), side effects that have not been well studied in the past.
