From the Dean
Care that Changes Our World
Over the past few months, we’ve publicly announced that nine global companies are joining with us in the Alliance for Genomic Discovery (AGD) to whole genome sequence our DNA bank, BioVU, in its entirety. This landmark work will take over a year and is being done in Iceland by our…
Features
The Merit of Minimizing Mistakes
Progress across biomedicine and health is attended by a series of well-knit statistical inferences. Statistical inference tells you whether that obscure human trait that has seized your imagination is apt to be a blind alley or a useful (and publishable) biomarker of disease risk. It estimates how many willing patients…
Good Vibrations
For decades, Music Row and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, two Nashville institutions a short distance from one another, existed separately. “There wasn’t a wall between them, but there weren’t strong bridges either,” said Roland “Ron” Eavey, MD, SM, emeritus faculty member, former chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck…
A 'Site" for Sore Eyes
Four years ago, Roger Lasater went outside to look at the stars and the moon. “They just disappeared,” he said. Lasater, 78, of Ashland City, Tennessee, was in the beginning stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a chronic eye disease that affects the part of the retina (macula) responsible for…
Lessons in Love
Nearly 40% of doctors have married other doctors or health care professionals, according to the American Medical Association. For many physician couples, medical school is where they met and fell in love. This is certainly the case for several Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) alumni, some of whom…
In My Life
Seth Christman, MD, HS’21
Founder of East Nashville Wellness Center, a nonprofit mental health and substance use clinic for the underserved. Earned his MD from East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. Completed his psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt and won the research award for studying accelerated aging in late-life depression. “I chose psychiatry…
Q+A
Q + A: Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH
Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH, is director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH) and professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He holds the Endowed Directorship in Global Health. VIGH facilitates the expansion and coordination of global health research, technical assistance and training initiatives…
