News Announcements

The Department of Radiology is excited to welcome Jennifer S. Weaver, MD, as an Associate Professor of Clinical, Radiology and Radiological Sciences. Dr. Weaver comes to Nashville by way of Albuquerque's University of New Mexico. Dr. Weaver attended medical school at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health and completed her Diagnostic Radiology Residency and Musculoskeletal Imaging Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Colin McKnight, MD, Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Sciences, has been accepted into RSNA's 2022-2023 Advanced Course in Grant Writing. In the program, Dr. McKnight will work alongside 15 other faculty from around the country.

Mary Ellen Koran, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, has been awarded the Alzheimer's Association Clinician Scientist Fellowship (AACSF) Grant. Over the next two years, she will study how lymphatic flow in the neck might play a role in dementia, using clinical nuclear medicine images like lymphoscintigraphy and FDG PET.

Maintaining a healthy work-life balance helps reduce stress and prevent burnout in employees, and working from home is a common way to help employees feel a stronger sense of flexibility and overall well-being. Traditionally, the medical field has not been able to provide work-from-home options to physicians due to the high-touch nature of the job.

Current Clinical Fellow/Instructor Emily Lippincott, MD, will be joining the Department of Radiology as an Assistant Professor in Cardiothoracic Imaging, starting in July of 2023. Dr. Lippincott received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2017. Following school, she joined the VUMC Radiology house staff and finished an internal medicine internship in 2018. Next, she spent a year in a diagnostic radiology residency at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2019, Dr.