Center for Asthma Research recent publications and accomplishments:
Can drinking on a long flight hurt your heart health? Are summer colds really worse than winter colds? Why is there more syphilis in Tennessee? And other news stories with VUMC sources
NBC News reporter Linda Carroll interviewed Mariann Piano, RN, PhD, Nancy and Hilliard Travis Professor of Nursing, for a story about a new study on how inflight alcohol and cabin pressure may…
A new COVID variant called FLiRT; olive oil and dementia risk; broken hips can be deadlier than cancer; and other news stories with VUMC sources
Tina Hartert, MD, MPH, professor of Medicine, was quoted by Healio in a story about a tool that can help identify infants most at risk for RSV.
New tool helps identify babies at high risk for RSV
A new tool to identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) illness could aid pediatricians in prioritizing children under 1 to receive a preventive medication before…
Bird flu in the milk supply; an allergy doctor’s allergy shots; the cost of weight-loss and diabetes drugs; and other news stories with VUMC sources
Traces of the bird flu virus have been found in many sample of pasteurized milk and news reporters contacted William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventative Medicine, for information and…
Grant bolsters food allergy research efforts
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a seven-year, $5 million award to conduct food allergy research, joining nine other institutions as part of the Consortium for Food Allergy…
CAR Group Shout-outs:
- Ferdinand Cacho, MD - abstract was chosen by the Assembly on Pediatrics to receive a 2024 Abstract Scholarship.
- Hartert and Bacharier serve as expert panel members and authors of new US and international asthma guidelines, ERP-4 and GINA.
- Brittney Snyder, PhD, awarded NIH K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award.
- Shikha Saxena, MD, received an abstract scholarship for the 2022 American Thoracic Society (ATS) conference.
- Stokes Peebles, Jr., MD, received the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s 2022 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Research.
- Study Explores role RSV plays in asthma development
- Stokes Peebles, Jr., MD, was elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the nation’s most respected medical honor societies. Read the story in VUMC News here.