VUMC in the news

VUMC was named by news reports all over the country after vicitims from the Jan. 23 school shooting in Kentucky were transported to the Medical Center for treatment. The Tennessean's coverage, including video of a news conference with Richard Miller, MD, professor of Surgery and chief of the Trauma Center, and Oscar Guillamondegui, MD, associate professor of Surgery and Trauma Medical Director, is here.

A “PBS Newshour” report, in which former vice president Joseph Biden discusses the possibility that his son Beau’s brain cancer could have been caused by the fumes from burn pits during Beau’s time in the military, quotes Reid Thompson, MD, chair of Neurological Surgery.

A Chicago Tribune story on the way teens on the autism spectrum can benefit from improv and theater classes quotes Blythe Corbett, PhD, associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Modern Healthcare reporter Maria Castellucci interviewed Mary Yarbrough, MD, associate professor of Clinical Medicine, for a story about how healthcare organizations are responding to the issue of burnout by supporting clinicians and finding ways to change the culture.

Healthline breaking news editor Gillian Mohney, People reporter Diane Herbst and The Australian Financial Review United States correspondent John Kehoe interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for stories about this year’s bad flu season. Consumer Reports reporter Hallie Levine interviewed Schaffner for a story about Tamiflu.

WKRN News 2 reporter Nick Calloway interviewed Don Arnold, MD, associate professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, about sledding safety. Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt saw numerous sledding-related injuries during the recent snowfall, mostly involving head, eye and spleen injuries.