VUMC in the news

The Chicago Tribune published the Washington Post article quoting Kelly Schlendorf, MD, MHS, assistant professor of Medicine and medical director of the Adult Heart Transplant Program, about the Transplant Center’s study on hepatitis C-positive heart transplantation.

Knoxville News Sentinel reporter Christopher Salvemini interviewed James Crowe Jr., MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, for a story about his study that isolated the first human monoclonal antibodies that can neutralize norovirus, the leading cause of acute gastrointestinal illness in the world. These antibodies, described in the journal Gastroenterology, “have high potential” for improving diagnosis and treatment of norovirus illness as well as furthering efforts to develop the first effective norovirus vaccine.

WZTV, Fox 17 and WSMV interviewed Jesse Ehrenfeld, MD, professor of Anesthesiology, about VUMC’s new transgender clinic opening in Bellevue. Here is the WSMV story and the Fox 17 story. 

WTVF reporter Kristen Skovira interviewed Charissa Hoffman, VUMC volunteer musician, for a story on spending time playing her ukulele for patients at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks.

WSMV photographer Kevin Canady interviewed Andie Perona, a VUMC surgical technician with the transplant team, who in 2014 became a double transplant patient herself. Her team of co-workers and doctors transplanted a kidney and pancreas into Perona, ending her battle with diabetes and polycystic kidney disease and giving her a new life. The story brings attention to the Donate Life initiative.

WTVF reporter Matthew Torres interviewed Ashish Shah, MD, professor and chair of Cardiac Surgery, for a story about transplant with opioid / Hep C donor organs.