Emily Waltenbaugh

Digital health interventions — delivered via technologies including text messages, apps and websites — are increasingly common for supporting chronic disease self-care. Although studies have focused on improving patient engagement with these interventions, limited research has addressed the association between engagement and clinical outcomes.  Lyndsay Nelson, PhD, Andrew Spieker, PhD, and… Read More

Three faculty members of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have been elected this year to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), an elite honor society of physician-scientists from the upper ranks of academic medicine and industry. They are: Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH, Craig Weaver Professor of Pediatrics… Read More

Nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow and Grammy nominee Rivers Rutherford headlined “Late Night with Shade Tree Clinic” on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 By: Lexie Little Everyday is a winding road, one might say, for the underserved populations of the Nashville area. And since 2004, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine… Read More

Students in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine master of genetic counseling program match with peer mentors and mentees to establish a sense of community By: Lexie Little As Kelsey Schulz waited to enter their classroom at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) for the first time, they drummed their… Read More

Molly Cromer Our Medical Physics students come from across the country to study with the faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in both diagnostic imaging and radiation therapy tracks at the master’s level and in diagnostic imaging at the doctoral level. Molly Cromer is a first-year master of science… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students prepare to match into residency as a couple ahead of their wedding this spring By: Lexie Little He watched her gather her things. Alan Makhoul, then a first-year medical student, walked with classmate Lex Erath at the end of a casual study session. The… Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Ben Reisman (M4) on winning an abstract award at FASEB Hematologic Malignancies Conference! Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Lim (M4) on having an abstract accepted for an oral presentation at the Association of University Radiologists Annual meeting! Rachel Brown (G5) won Best Long… Read More

Background: I was born and raised in Nashville, in L.A., also fondly known as “Lower Antioch”. I attended college in Mississippi (Mississippi University for Women) and started a career as an archivist. I lived in Central Illinois for five years while my husband was in graduate school. We… Read More

HDAC inhibitors stimulate LIFR when it is repressed by hypoxia or PTHrP in breast cancer. Edwards CM, Clements ME, Vecchi LA 3rd, Johnson JA, Johnson RW. J Bone Oncol. 2021 Dec 1;31:100407. doi: 10.1016/j.jbo.2021.100407. eCollection 2021 Dec. Breast cancer… Read More

From printmaking to pediatric practice, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student Steven Scaglione looks to connect with people By: Lexie Little Steven Scaglione (MD ’22) Steven Scaglione dusts shavings off his most recent wood carving. Working groove after groove, day after day, an image assembles that he readies to ink… Read More