Division of Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition

March 4, 2024

Vanderbilt’s Yash Choksi and Fabian Bock honored by the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation

Vanderbilt’s Yash Choksi, MD, recently received the 2024 Research Investigator Early Career Faculty Award from the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation and Fabian Bock, MD, PhD, won the society’s Research Scholar Award.

By Bill Snyder
February 20, 2024

Liver disease specialist Ashley Spann receives two career development awards

Vanderbilt’s Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI, is the inaugural recipient of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Hepatology Award from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

By Leigh MacMillan
January 9, 2024

Innovations improve the lives of patients with IBD

Two recent innovations — point-of-care intestinal ultrasound and functional medicine — are improving the lives of patients at the Vanderbilt Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks.

By Bill Snyder, Carol Poston, and Meredith Carr
Ken Lau, PhD, left, and Bob Coffey, MD, have made several important discoveries about colorectal cancer that are aiding the search for new, more effective therapies. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
December 11, 2023

Colorectal cancer ‘cartography’ reveals an avenue to improved immunotherapy

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have discovered why most colorectal tumors escape detection and destruction by the body’s immune system.

By Bill Snyder
Bob Coffey, MD
December 8, 2023

Vanderbilt research presented at Cancer Moonshot meet

Vanderbilt Colorectal cancer expert Bob Coffey, MD, was recently invited to present his research to representatives of President Joe Biden’s reignited Cancer Moonshot initiative.

By Bill Snyder
Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, center, was presented the award by Kenneth Holroyd, MD, MBA, and Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD. (photo by Donn Jones)
November 17, 2023

Keith Obstein receives inaugural Brock Family Center Innovator of the Year Award

Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, has received the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation in recognition of his achievements in developing and commercializing a magnetic, flexible colonoscopy system with the potential to provide a safer alternative to standard colonoscopy.

By Jill Clendening
October 17, 2023

VISE-affiliated researchers conduct phase 1 trial of novel magnetic endoscope for colonoscopies

A Vanderbilt research team is conducting the first phase 1 clinical trial of a magnetic, flexible endoscope that has the potential to provide a safer alternative to standard colonoscopy, particularly for individuals with inflammatory bowel disease.
By Jill Clendening
August 10, 2023

Messaging changes benefit both providers and patients

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has just rolled out changes to streamline and better manage messaging between patients and their care providers.
By Jill Clendening
June 29, 2023

Selenium signal found in colorectal cancer: study

An antioxidant transporter of the trace mineral selenium that protects against inflammatory bowel disease has the opposite effect in colorectal cancer, where it promotes tumor growth, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have reported.
By Bill Snyder
June 14, 2023

Symposium offers new ways to overcome health disparities

Ideas for addressing the disproportionate impact of cancer, diabetes, and gastrointestinal diseases on disadvantaged populations were shared recently during a diversity symposium at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Bill Snyder
May 3, 2023

Vanderbilt mourns loss of former Gastroenterology director Burk

Raymond Burk Jr., MD, former director of the Vanderbilt's Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, died May 1 in Nashville. He was 80.
By Bill Snyder
April 6, 2023

A ‘supermere’ method for biomarker discovery

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a method for isolating extracellular vesicles and nanoparticles — a complex transport system involved in health and disease — which will improve biomarker discovery and the identification of therapeutic targets.
By Bill Snyder
October 13, 2022

Horst takes on new roles in advancing digital health

Sara Horst, MD, MPH, has been named associate vice chair for Digital Health Operations for Vanderbilt's Department of Medicine and assistant chief for Clinical Informatics for the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
By Leigh MacMillan
1 2 3 … 7