VUMC in the news

WPLN Nashville Public Radio reported on the need to train practicing physicians on best practices about prescribing opioids. Bonnie Miller, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Education, is interviewed in the piece.

WPLN Nashville Public Radio broadcast a story about a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance to study causes and solutions to some African-American men’s hesitancy to seek medical care. Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, director of the Alliance, and Derek Griffith, PhD, associate professor of Medicine and associate professor of Health Policy, are quoted in the piece.

WNPT Nashville Public Television producer LaTonya Turner interviewed James Powers, MD, professor of Medicine, for 'Aging Matters,' her continuing series of documentaries about growing older in Middle Tennessee. The edition being produced focuses on challenges and changes in geriatric hospital care and health care.

The CNN show “Something’s Killing Me,” hosted by B.D. Wong, aired an episode Aug. 5 detailing the fungal meningitis outbreak that occurred due to contaminated drugs produced by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, and details the role April Pettit, MD, assistant professor of Medicine, played in discovering the source of the outbreak.

Infectious Disease News reporter Stephanie Viguers interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a Q&A for National Immunization Awareness Month in August.