VUMC in the news

The Wall Street Journal’s Jo Craven McGinty interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a story about this year’s flu season.

CNN reporter Susan Scutti interviewed Robert Miller, MD, professor of Clinical Medicine, for a story reporting that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not on the bench on Monday, Jan. 7, to hear arguments in the first case brought to the high court since the 85-year-old underwent cancer surgery last month.

CNN interviewed two VUMC sources, Robert Miller, MD, professor of Clinical Medicine, and Eric Grogan, MD, associate professor of Thoracic Surgery, as part of its coverage of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pulmonary lobectomy and the removal of two nodules from her lung.

Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics, was interviewed by CNN about how dangerous and potentially deadly flu can be for young children. The interview was in the context of the death of a migrant child in American custody on Christmas Eve.

The entertainment news website Taste of Country posted a story about the Christmastime visit of Rascal Flatts to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

WTVF News Channel 5 reporter Emily Luxen interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a story on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a degenerative brain disorder. The story focused on a 33-year-old Lebanon man who was diagnosed with the condition two years ago.