Emily Waltenbaugh

Infectious diseases researcher H. Keipp Talbot, MD, MPH, has been appointed chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ACIP advises the CDC on adult and childhood immunization, including the age when a vaccine should be given, the number of… Read More

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., has named Kathleen M. Neuzil, M.D., as the 13th director of the Fogarty International Center (FIC) and NIH associate director for international research. Dr. Neuzil will be the first woman to hold the permanent FIC directorship since the center’s founding… Read More

Fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) has been highly successful in treating patients who are ill with Clostridioides difficile. However, research is just beginning to determine its potential for treating other inflammatory conditions. At Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, pediatric gastroenterologist Maribeth R. Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., was the senior author on a Cochrane Review article that… Read More

Every February, advocates and organizations from the rare diseases community meet in Washington, D.C., for Rare Disease Week. EveryLife Foundation hosts the conference that prepares attendees to meet with lawmakers and advocate for policies that impact rare diseases. This year’s Rare Disease Week resulted in 332 meetings with members of… Read More

On March 13, 2020, the Department of Health Policy established an ad-hoc committee of researchers, clinicians, and others who shifted their daily focus to advising and informing local, state, and federal leaders on the response to the global pandemic. A novel coronavirus was sweeping the globe, shutting down businesses, schools,… Read More

Rafael Paez, MD, MSCI ’23, recently received the American Thoracic Society 2023-2024 ATS Diversity Grant, for his proposal: “Cone beam assisted Robotic Interventional Study: A Pragmatic endpoint clustered randomized trial”. This study will follow the general template of the nearly completed RELIANT trial, which compared navigational to robotic bronchoscopy using… Read More

Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Pediatrics, on July 1 will begin a one-year term as chair of the Biomedical Informatics, Library and Data Sciences Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Founded in 1836 and incorporated into the National Institutes of Health in 1968, the… Read More