William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, was quoted by reporters at, among other national and local outlets, The New York Times (RSV vaccines); NPR (the decrease in childhood vaccinations); Prevention (a self-administered home flu vaccine); HuffPost and New Scientist (the new COVID variant); KFF Health News and CBS News (Florida state officials issuing misinformation about COVID booster); and NBC News (bird flu).
In July, Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, President of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Professor of Pediatrics, Odessa Settles, RN, MSN, CM (retired) participated in the first-ever Angel Newborn Emergency Transport Ambulance and Barbara Englehardt Wilson, MD, Associate Professor (retired) Pediatrics/Mildred Stahlman Division of Neonatology were interviewed by Andrew Greenwith The Lancet for an obituary on Dr. Mildred Stahlman. That obituary has now been published.
WKRN News 2, interviewed Joseph Gigante, professor of Pediatrics, about the importance of childhood vaccinations.
The Tennessean health care reporter Beth Warren covering the news that Douglas Terry, PhD, co-director of the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center, has been named the NFL’s Senior Director of Research. Terry was also covered by Nashville Post, WKRN News 2 and WGNS Radio for his JAMA Neurology study that found about one out of every three former professional NFL players believe they have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
The National Desk national reporter Geoff Harris interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about Enterovirus D68.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News, a national syndicator of medical news, released its story on colorectal cancer in children featuring Cathy Eng, MD, director, Young Adult Cancers Program. The video story was sent to local television affiliates across the U.S.
Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, and Darren Heintzman, a postdoctoral fellow, were quoted by Popular Science in a story based on their research about fevers and their impact on the body.
Adetola Kassim, MBBS, professor of Medicine, was quoted by Medscape in Scientific American in stories about new treatments for sickle cell disease.
Robert Miller, MD, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor and professor of Clinical Medicine, was quoted by Stars and Stripes in their coverage of lung diseases in veterans.
Kelsey Gastineau, MD, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Hospital Medicine was interviewed by WKRN News 2 about the most recent accidental shooting involving a child and the efforts of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to distribute free gun locks.