VUMC in the news

 USA Today consumer health reporter Ken Alltucker interviewed Daniel Muñoz, MD, MPA, assistant professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, for a story about VUMC’s ISCHEMIA trial presented earlier this month at the American Heart Association’s meeting in Philadelphia

CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a story about the early start to flu season. Cohen also interviewed Schaffner for a story about a child who was hospitalized this season with Influenza B, and he was quoted in another CNN piece about the wisdom of providing flu vaccinations to people being held by the U.S. government in migrant detention.

MedPage Today Washington Editor Joyce Frieden covered the Washington, D.C., U.S. News & World Report roundtable discussion on physician burnout featuring Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

ABC News’ Medical Unit reporter Eden David is covering a research paper from Stephen Patrick, MD, director of the Center for Child Health Policy, regarding the punitive state policies related to substance use in pregnancy with rates of NAS. VUMC patient Samantha Powell was interviewed for this story about how her fear kept her from getting prenatal care. 

Reuters Health reporter Marilynn Larkin interviewed Francesca Bagnato, MD, assistant professor of Neurology, for a story about a Brigham and Women’s Hospital study that used a state-of-the-art imaging technique to assess the presence of pathology in the meninges of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

BuzzFeed News science desk reporter Dan Vergano interviewed Katty Kang, MD, PhD, associate professor of Neurology, for a story about Amber Freed and her family’s journey to cure their son, Maxwell, of a rare neurological disease. The Freeds had been struggling to get a genetically modified mouse that could help Maxwell from Shanghai into the U.S., and a VUMC team, including Kang, stepped in to help.

Reporter Michael Schroeder from U.S. News and World Report interviewed Debra Friedman, MD, E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Pediatric Oncology at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, for an overview of childhood cancer, including treatment for the most common forms and how caring for pediatric cancer patients differs from the adult population.