Department of Medicine Archive — Page 57 of 127

Portrait of a smiling woman with long curly black hair, wearing a coral blazer over a white blouse.
April 21, 2022

Drake, Freedman, Peebles elected AAP members

Vanderbilt’s Wonder Drake, MD, Jane Freedman, MD, and Stokes Peebles, MD, have been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies.

By Kathy Whitney
Portrait of a smiling woman wearing a white coat and burgundy scarf.
April 21, 2022

Biltibo receives career development award to support hematology research

Vanderbilt’s Eden Biltibo, MD, a clinical fellow in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, has been selected for the 2022 ASH-CIBMTR-ASTCT Career Development Award.

By Tom Wilemon
Cassandra Haines poses with an acoustic guitar in a room decorated with a branch-and-leaf wall design.
April 15, 2022

Music therapy comes to Palliative Care Unit

“Music opens many new perspectives and pathways that patients otherwise would not have.”

By Emily Stembridge
Four medical professionals pose together in front of a wood-paneled wall; the person at left wears a white Vanderbilt University Medical Center lab coat, and the others wear business attire.
April 14, 2022

VUMC research team receives $1 million grant from AHA to study impact of long-COVID on heart

A research team led by Cyndya Shibao, MD, MSCI, associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), has received a three-year, $1-million grant from the American Heart Association to study long-term effects of COVID-19 on the heart and cardiovascular system.

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of Juan Pablo Arroyo Ornelas, MD, PhD, smiling and wearing a light blue collared shirt.
April 13, 2022

Arroyo, Terker receive new awards from ASCI

Juan Pablo Arroyo, MD, PhD, instructor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Andrew Terker, MD, PhD, research fellow in Nephrology, each received an inaugural 2022 Emerging Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

By Emily Stembridge
Two smiling men, one in a suit and one in a white medical coat, hold a framed research appreciation award between them.
April 13, 2022

40th annual Research Forum hosted by GME office

Matthew Clark, MD, clinical fellow in Pediatric Rheumatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, won the Elliott V. Newman Prize for best abstract during the 40th annual Research Forum hosted April 5 by the VUMC Office of Graduate Medical Education and House Staff Advisory Council. VUMC House Staff presented Dario Englot, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Neurological Surgery and Surgical Director of Epilepsy, with the Grant W. Liddle Award for his “commitment and leadership in promoting an interest in research among young physicians.”

By Bill Snyder