Department of Medicine

Vanderbilt Center for Tourette Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders team members include, from left, Angela White, RN, Mariana Ciobanu, MD, KellyAnn Primm, OTR/L, David Isaacs, MD, MPH, Heather Riordan, MD, Michelle Eckland, Jessica Stroh, RN, and Kayla Johnson, PharmD.

VUMC designated a Tourette syndrome center of excellence

The Vanderbilt Center for Tourette Syndrome and Other Tic Disorders has been designated a Tourette Association of America (TAA) Center of Excellence.

VUMC mourns loss of dedicated clinician, teacher Fowler

Vanderbilt’s Michael Fowler, MD, associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, a celebrated Master Clinical Teacher, and co-medical director of the Shade Tree Clinic, died Feb. 20. He was 49.

By Kathy Whitney

February 17, 2022

Park named director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, deputy director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named the center’s new director.

By John Howser

February 17, 2022

Grant to support Haake’s research on kidney cancer

Kure It Cancer Research has awarded a $200,000 grant to support kidney cancer research by Vanderbilt’s Scott Haake, MD.

By Tom Wilemon

February 7, 2022

Study shows lifesaving benefit of baricitinib for ventilated COVID patients

Vanderbilt research shows that critically ill COVID-19 patients on a mechanical ventilator or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation lived more often when randomized to receive baricitinib.

By Craig Boerner

February 3, 2022

Team to study using probiotics to reduce heart disease risk

A Vanderbilt research team has received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand how alcohol’s effect on the gut microbiome drives heart disease.