Bill Snyder

1 week ago | news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder

Infants who develop a “wheezing illness” or have been infected by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) before their 1st birthday are at increased risk for subsequent and severe viral infections and childhood asthma, according to researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Northwestern University.

1 week ago | news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder

An aging population, lack of access to primary care, staff shortages and not enough hospital beds — all are driving the chronic, critical overcrowding of U.S. emergency departments. Many arrivals at hospital emergency departments end up “boarding” in beds squeezed into waiting rooms or lined up along noisy hallways. Nationwide in 2022, 2.5 million ED visits stretched into a second day, or longer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2 weeks ago | news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder

As the COVID-19 pandemic wound down, an international partnership that included researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center set out to solve a medical mystery — the deaths of four children from a never-before-seen “error” of development. The children were born in Turkey with a smaller-than-normal head size, cataracts, severe developmental delay, intellectual disability and epilepsy. Three children in one of two related families died in infancy.

2 weeks ago | news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder

Sara Horst, MD, MPH, has been named interim vice chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective July 1. Horst, professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, succeeds Bryan Harris, MD, MPH, MMHC, current Executive Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, who has been named interim chair of Medicine.

3 weeks ago | news.vumc.org | Bill Snyder

In her final State of the Department of Medicine address at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on June 5, Jane Freedman, MD, chair of the department, physician-in-chief of Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Gladys Parkinson Stahlman Professor of Cardiovascular Research celebrated the department’s 100th anniversary, praised the faculty members for their achievements and assured them “the department will continue to thrive.” “I want to commend everyone for staying steady during some...