VUMC in the news
Health.com reporter Mandy Gardner interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a story about West Nile virus. Schaffner also is quoted in a LiveScience piece about the STD Mycoplasma genitalium, and a Healthline story about the herpes vaccine.
MedPage Today contributing writer Judy George interviewed Scott Zuckerman, MD, Neurosurgery resident, for a story about a new study on concussions and the difficulties of treating and testing patients with ADHD.
Reuters Health reporter Lorraine Janeczko interviewed David Charles, MD, professor and vice-chair of Neurology, for a story about his Neurology study on deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease in early-stage treatment. Other news outlets covering the story included Medical News Today, the Brain & Life blog, Huntsville, Alabama, television station WZDX-TV (Fox) and French medical newspaper Le Quotidien du Médecin.
ABC News Radio producer Michael Key interviewed Corey Slovis, MD, professor and chair of Emergency Medicine, for a story about heat-related patients from the Vans Warped Tour show in Nashville. CBS Evening News also covered the story nationally, along with several other outlets, including The Tennessean.
Science magazine reporter Jennifer Couzin-Frankel interviewed Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, professor of Pediatrics and Law, for a story about whether persons who give DNA and tissues to science should be able to find out what they contain.
Prevention magazine reporter Meghan Rabbitt interviewed Amanda Edwards, Au.D., an audiologist at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center, for a story about the health effects of noise pollution.
Nature senior reporter Declan Butler interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about universal flu vaccines.
AARP.org reporter Stacey Colino interviewed Howard Kirshner, MD, 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.
“Country Aircheck” featured Elizabeth Roof, senior research specialist at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, in a story about the ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp for children with Williams syndrome. Billboard magazine also mentioned the Kennedy Center in a story.