VUMC in the news
In the past week, growing concern about the coronavirus 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, Mark Denison, MD, professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and James Crowe Jr., MD, director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center.
Here is a small sampling of a few of the most prominent:
- The New York Times (Schaffner)
- Science magazine (Denison)
- China Global Television Network news (Schaffner)
- Kaiser Health News and USA Today (Schaffner)
- Time magazine (Denison)
- Bloomberg News (Denison)
- Washington Post (Schaffner)
- AAMC News (Crowe)
- NPR’s “Here and Now” (Denison)
- CNN (Schaffner)
CNBC interviewed Katty Kang, MD, PhD, associate professor of Neurology and Pharmacology, for a story about Amber Freed and her family’s journey to cure their son, Maxwell, of a rare neurological disease.
NPR’s “All Things Considered” broadcast a story produced and reported by WPLN Nashville Public Radio’s Blake Farmer about the new national liver allocation scheme which will result in fewer livers being transplanted locally. The piece mentions VUMC and quotes a Vanderbilt patient, Bobbie Cole of Knoxville.