VUMC in the news
The Tennessean profiled Erin Calipari, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology. The piece discussed her research into addiction, and also how being the daughter of University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari has shaped her.
The death of Howard Jones III, MD, former chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was covered by, among other media outlets, The Tennessean.
Associated Press national reporter interviewed Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD, co-leader of the Breast Cancer Research Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, for a story about breast-cancer relapses revealing late-recurring ER-positive genomic subgroups.
NBC News producer Erika Edwards interviewed William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, for a story about a new study that found cases of whooping cough (pertussis) are increasing and one possible cause may be that the bacteria that causes whooping cough, B. pertussis, has undergone genetic variation so that it no longer matches that of the vaccine. Schaffner was also interviewed by CBS News, Buzzfeed News reporter Brianna Sacks and Associated Press reporter Gillian Flaccus for stories about this week’s MMWR report about a 6-year old with tetanus who had not been vaccinated.
Infectious Disease News and Cosmos, an Australian science magazine, interviewed Suman Das, PhD, associate professor of Infectious Disease, for stories about his American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene analysis of "sentinel chickens"— flocks deployed specifically to detect the presence of mosquito-borne diseases — that reveals the Florida panhandle as the likely epicenter of a rare but deadly virus that has re-emerged in recent years to spread as far north as Canada. Researchers at VUMC, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Health and the University of South Florida, investigated transmission patterns for Eastern equine encephalitis virus, or EEEV, the deadliest mosquito-borne disease in North America. After decades of sporadic activity, the virus re-emerged about 14 years ago with a spate of cases from Florida to New England and into Nova Scotia, Canada. The story was also reported by HealthDay News and U.S. News and World Report.