Emily Waltenbaugh

Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across Vanderbilt University have been selected for the 2024 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. There are five fellows from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM). Read More

In collaboration with Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) located in Maputo, Mozambique, the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) has been awarded a five-year, $1.2 million training grant by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health to establish the first biomedical informatics (BMI) training program for scholars and fellows using computational… Read More

Kristin Poole O’Grady, PhD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received research support totaling more than $2.4 million for her investigations of progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) using advanced imaging. MS is a potentially disabling disease caused by an attack by the body’s immune… Read More

Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, Grant W. Liddle Professor of Medicine, co-director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and associate director for research for the VA’s Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding… Read More

Alex Diamond, DO, MPH, professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics and Neurological Surgery at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was recently named the chair of the National Federation of State High School (NFHS) Associations Sports Medicine Advisory Committee. His duties will begin immediately as he replaces the former chair, Greg… Read More

The long-standing partnership between Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and collaborators Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) and Bayero University (BUK) is poised to address the growing demand for research in precision medicine in Africa. This collaborative effort has been recognized with a five-year, $1.2 million training grant from the Fogarty International… Read More