April 20, 2021

VUMC sources quoted by New York Times, ABC News, Scripps, more

William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, continues to be one of the most in-demand sources about COVID-19, influenza and other subjects in the news. Among the news organizations he has spoken with recently:  The New York TimesNew York Post, The Washington Post, ABC News, Reader's Digest, Scripps National News, MarketWatch, WebMD, Voice of America, and Reuters.

Scripps national producer Liz Cohen Printup interviewed Buddy Creech, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, for a story about the pause on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine after clotting cases. 

Associated Press reporter Travis Loller interviewed Rizwan Hamid, MD, PhD, Dorothy O. Wells Professor of Pediatrics, director of Pediatric Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine and director of the VUDP, for a story about the new Vanderbilt Undiagnosed Diseases Program. The story was picked up by U.S. News and World Report.