VUMC in the news

News media all over the world followed events surrounding the Sunday mass shooting at an Antioch Waffle House and the manhunt for the suspect. Many reports, including from all local news media, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, mentioned VUMC's report on the conditions of the shooting victims brought to Vanderbilt for treatment. In addition, the New York Times also published a story about VUMC's role in caring for victims of three recent mass shootings, and interviewed Rick Miller, MD, chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, and Oscar Guillamondegui, MD, Trauma medical director.

The Washington Post quotes William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, in this piece about why the shingles vaccine is a must for people over 50.

Schaffner was also quoted by MedPageToday in a story about Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar II being treated with intravenous antibiotics for a minor infection. After Azar was readmitted to the hospital after being discharged earlier in the week, The Washington Post also talked to Schaffner about the cabinet official’s treatment.

The New York Times quoted Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology research fellow Daniel Lark in a piece about the role of exercise in weight loss.

Louise Rollins-Smith, PhD, associate professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, has written an editorial for The Conversation about potential stressors of amphibian populations, including climate change, decreasing habitats and disease. The Wildlife Society writer Dana Kobilinsky also interviewed Rollins-Smith for a story about her study on the rising populations of some previously declining Central American frogs. 

AARP.org reporter Stacey Colino interviewed Howard Kirshner, MD, professor and vice chair of Neurology and director of the Vanderbilt Stroke Center, for a story about why more doctors aren’t giving stroke patients tissue plasminogen activator (TPA) to stop strokes and prevent disability.