End-stage Kidney Disease Study Seeks to Delay Dialysis
VUMC Reporter, Kathy Whitney
August 31, 2017
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/08/31/end-stage-kidney-disease-study-seeks-to-delay-dialysis/
Predicting Brain Surgery Outcomes
VUMC Reporter, Meredith Jackson
August 24, 2017
The following story originally appeared in the Aug. 24, 2017, edition of the VUMC Reporter.
For patients with a common type of epilepsy known as temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), the only treatment choices are anti-seizure drugs or surgery to remove the focus of the seizures in part of the brain known as the hippocampus.
Pickens Named Chief of Section of Radiological Sciences
Krystyna Barnard
July 31, 2017
The Department of Radiology recently named David Pickens, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, as the Chief of the Section of Radiological Sciences.
Dr. Pickens assumes his new role following the retirement of former section chief, professor emeritus Ronald Price, Ph.D., earlier this year.