Bill Heerman

VUMC receives $10 million to study childhood obesity interventions in rural and minority communities in Tennessee and Louisiana

Vanderbilt researchers are set to begin studying the ideal “dose” of behavioral interventions to treat childhood obesity in rural and minority communities across Tennessee and Louisiana.

Heerman named chief of General Pediatrics

Bill Heerman, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics, has been named chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, effective May 1.

E. Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, speaks at last week’s Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum.

Translational Research Forum highlights range of studies

The 2022 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum exemplified the range of studies conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that are translating scientific discovery into clinical practice.