Alice Coogan

Lab transformation project underway; will modernize clinical lab operations

Diagnostic Laboratory Services set for relocation, expansion

Vanderbilt’s Diagnostic Laboratory Services are undergoing a major relocation and expansion project.

Alice Coogan, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.

Coogan named chair of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

After an extensive national search Alice Coogan, MD, interim chair of the Department and professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology (PM&I), has been named as the department’s next chair, effective immediately. Coogan will be the seventh chair of the department and the first female chair.

New leadership appointments for Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Zic to pass baton on leadership of VUSM Admissions

Over the past eight years as Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s associate dean for Admissions, John Zic, M.D., estimates he’s made about 2,000 phone calls to let prospective medical students know they’ve been admitted. Personally delivering the good news has been one of his favorite aspects of the time-consuming job.