Department of Medicine Archive — Page 54 of 127

Portrait of a smiling woman with long brown hair and glasses, wearing a patterned sweater and jeweled necklace, in a laboratory or office setting.
July 15, 2022

Holowatyj named chair of scientific advisory board for ACPMP Research Foundation

Vanderbilt’s Andreana Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, has been named the inaugural chair of the scientific advisory board for the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Research Foundation.

By Tom Wilemon
Heart patient Gabe Ezell, 11, recently visited Children’s Hospital’s new Fontan Clinic to check on his overall health in addition to his congenital heart condition. In the photo above, Gabe visits with Fontan team members Anita Pai, MD, left, and Angela Weingarten, MD.
July 13, 2022

Clinic offers ongoing care for pediatric heart patients

Vanderbilt recently launched a new multidisciplinary Fontan Clinic, which will provide an ongoing, coordinated care plan for children and teens, ages 10-19, who have had the Fontan procedure for single ventricle heart disease.

By Christina Echegaray
Glowing cyan electrocardiogram waveform with two prominent heartbeat spikes against a dark blue grid background.
July 7, 2022

Preempting sudden cardiac death

A technique to characterize all variants in genes associated with arrhythmia could improve the ability to identify and preemptively treat individuals at risk for sudden cardiac death.

By Bill Snyder
Stephen Raffanti, MD, MPH, with longtime colleague Quentella Carpenter, patient care programs coordinator at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic.
July 7, 2022

Breaking the stigma of AIDS part of Raffanti’s long legacy

On June 29 Stephen Raffanti, MD, MPH, hung up his scrubs at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic for the last time. It was a bittersweet moment for the man who helped lead Nashville out of the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic 30 years ago.

By Bill Snyder
Open orange prescription bottle spilling green-and-white capsules onto a white surface.
July 7, 2022

Study seeks to disprove cephalosporin allergies

A Vanderbilt study shows that taking a careful history in patients who report allergies to cephalosporins and separating them into risk categories can help identify which patients are at low risk to be truly allergic to these antibiotics.

By Nancy Humphrey
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July 1, 2022

July Medicine Grand Rounds announced

By Vanderbilt Health News