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Study finds cognitive deficits common after critical illness
Oct. 10, 2013—“As medical care is improving, patients are surviving their critical illness more often, but if they are surviving their critical illness with disabling forms of cognitive impairment then that is something that we will have to be aware of because just surviving is no longer good enough,” said lead author Pratik Pandharipande, M.D., MSCI, professor...
12th Clinical and Translational Research Retreat
Sep. 26, 2013—Among those attending last week’s retreat were, from left, Gordon Bernard, M.D., Nancy Brown, M.D., keynote speaker Kathleen Neuzil, M.D., MPH, Satish Raj, M.D., MSCI, William Cooper, M.D., MPH, and Katherine Hartmann, M.D., Ph.D. (photo by Steve Green)
Transplant drug added to PREDICT program
Aug. 15, 2013—Tacrolimus is essential for patients receiving new hearts, kidneys and other organ transplants. The drug suppresses the body’s immune system, thereby preventing rejection. Marketed as Prograf, tacrolimus has a narrow “therapeutic window.” If too little of the drug gets into the circulation, acute transplant rejection may occur. Too much of it can cause serious side...
Koethe receives Hazinski Scholarship
Jul. 29, 2010—The Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Program has named John Koethe, M.D., a fellow in Infectious Disease, as the fourth annual recipient of the Thomas A. Hazinski, M.D., Scholarship. The Hazinski Scholarship was developed with the goal of providing support to promising MSCI applicants who have dedicated themselves to patient-oriented research. Excellence in...
Rosen named first Hazinski Scholar
Jun. 15, 2007—The Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Program has named Michael Rosen, M.D., a clinical fellow in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, the first recipient of the Thomas A. Hazinski, M.D., Scholarship. Hazinski, who died in January 2006, co-founded the MSCI program in 2000 and was actively involved...
Vanderbilt MSCI Serves as a Model for Tokai University program
Aug. 25, 2006—Clinical research training program heads to Japan 8/25/2006 -Daniel Byrne, M.S., carries around a textbook he wrote but cannot read. That's because it's been translated into Japanese. Last year Byrne and three other faculty members from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's innovative clinical research training program were asked to help establish a similar program in...