Vanderbilt University Honors 2 Radiologists as Emeriti Faculty
Twenty-eight retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 8, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Two of them were from the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.
ABR President-Elect, Lisa Kachnic, to join VUMC as new chair of Radiation Oncology
Lisa Kachnic, M.D., professor and chair of Radiation Oncology and associate director of Multidisciplinary Cancer Research at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), and chief of Radiation Oncology at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been named the new professor and chair of the Vanderbilt Department of Radiation Oncology. She will join the faculty on Sept. 21.
AUR Update with Team Vanderbilt
We had a busy week at the annual Association of University Radiologists (AUR) annual meeting this month in New Orleans!
Studies Point to Quantitative, Prognostic Role for Imaging in Head Injury
Hypercarbia Challenge May Show Abnormal Brain Physiology in Concussed Athletes
Increased cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in college athletes following a sports-related concussion may be related to recurring headache symptoms and could be an indicator of acute injury, according to a separate study presented at RSNA 2014 by Adam R. Militana, M.D., and colleagues.
Study reveals biomarker of post-injury spinal cord function
Vanderbilt University researchers have demonstrated, for the first time in a primate model, that injury disrupts neural signaling in the spinal cord and that these changes can be measured non-invasively with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
