Preventive medicine professor William Schaffner, M.D., was quoted by reporters in national and local newspapers, including the New York Times (RSV vaccine). NPR (reduction in childhood vaccinations). Prevention (self-administration of home influenza vaccine). HuffPost and New Scientist (new coronavirus variants). KFF Health News and CBS News (Florida officials release incorrect information about coronavirus boosters). NBC News (Bird Flu).
In July, Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, Director of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Professor of Pediatrics, and Odessa Settles, RN, MSN, CM (retired) participated in the first Angel Neonatal Emergency Transport Ambulance and Barbara・Inglehart also participated. Wilson, MD, Associate Professor (Retired) Pediatrics/Mildred Stahlman Neonatology, was interviewed by Andrew Green of The Lancet about Dr. Mildred Stahlman’s death. Its obituary has now been published.
WKRN News 2 interviewed pediatrics professor Joseph Gigante about the importance of childhood vaccinations.
Tennessee health care reporter Beth Warren reports on the news that Dr. Douglas Terry, co-director of the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center, has been named senior director of research for the NFL. Terry also spoke to The Nashville Post, WKRN News 2, about a JAMA Neurology study that found that about one in three former professional NFL players believe they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). It was also featured on WGNS Radio.
National Desk national reporter Jeff Harris interviewed Dr. Buddy Creech, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about enterovirus D68.
Ivanhoe Broadcast News, a national medical news syndicator, published an article about colorectal cancer in children featuring Kathy Eng, MD, director of the Young Adult Cancer Program. The video story was sent to local TV affiliates across the United States
Jeffrey Rathmell, Ph.D., Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and postdoctoral fellow Darren Heintzman, wrote in Popular Science magazine in an article based on research on fever and its effects on the body. Quoted.
MBBS Professor of Medicine Adetola Kassim was quoted in Scientific American’s Medscape in an article about new treatments for sickle cell disease.
Robert Miller, MD, Patricia and Rose Hart Professor of Clinical Medicine, was quoted in Stars and Stripes in a report on lung disease in veterans.
Dr. Kelsey Gastineau, assistant professor of pediatrics and hospital medicine, talks to WKRN News 2 about recent mass shootings involving children and Vanderbilt’s Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital’s efforts to distribute free gun locks. I was interviewed.
