VUMC in the news

The growing concern about the corona virus that began in Wuhan, China, and has now spread to many other countries, including the U.S., has brought numerous members of the national and international press to request interviews with William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, and Mark Denison, MD, professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Among some of the more prominent: The New York Times , The Washington Post, Time magazine, Bloomberg Law, NBC News, CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, BBC “World News America,” ABC “World News Tonight,” CNN International, The Washington Times, Huff Post, Reader’s Digest, Hospital Infection Control, The New York Times Parenting website, SiriusXM “Doctor Radio,”  Kaiser Health News, WebMD, Medpage Today, France 24.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, professor of Pediatrics and Law, in a story about tech companies gaining access to medical records.

NPR “Morning Edition” broadcast a piece on home hospice care, produced and reported by WPLN Nashville Public Radio reporter Blake Farmer, which quoted Parul Goyal, MBBS, assistant professor of Clinical Medicine.

Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD, instructor in Medicine, was interviewed for a WPLN Nashville Public Radio story about doing medical mission work via telemedicine.