VUMC in the news

A Health Leaders piece, “When Retail Giants Like Walmart and Amazon Invade Healthcare,” quotes William Stead, MD, Chief Strategy Officer for VUMC.

The Conversation published a piece, “A way around opioids: Target the type of pain for better pain relief,” that quotes David Edwards, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery.

WKRN News 2 produced a series of reports on homelessness in Nashville. One of the stories focused on the efforts of Sheryl Fleisch, MD, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, to provide medical care for homeless people. A separate story from the same series looked at opioid addiction among the homeless and quoted Reid Finlayson, MD, associate professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Healthline published a piece, “Could the World Cup lead to a measles outbreak in the U.S.?” that quotes William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine.