Crowd honors eight new endowed chair recipients Apr. 27, 2018, 4:14 PM Colleagues, friends and family gathered April 25 to honor eight Vanderbilt University faculty named to endowed chairs. Susan R. Wente, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, opened the ceremony by noting that 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of endowed chairs at Vanderbilt, but the tradition itself dates back nearly 300 years in America – with an English merchant endowing a chair in divinity at Harvard.

Congratulations to Carlos Grijalva for his selection for membership to the Academy for Excellence in Education! About the Academy for Excellence in Education:  The Academy for Excellence in Education was established in November of 2006. Our Founding membership was comprised of 44 Distinguished Medical Educators. The collective currently consists of 110 faculty. The Academy provides a forum to foster higher levels of participation and promote excellence and scholarship in the delivery of education to health professionals.

An initiative by the American Public Health Association, the 2018 National Public Health Week is a movement to create the healthiest nation in one generation.

The original goal of the 340B drug discount program was to allow qualified providers to “stretch federal resources as far as possible reaching more eligible patients and providing more comprehensive services.” In recent years, the program has come under scrutiny as the number of participating disproportionate share hospitals (DSHs) and their “child” affiliates have undergone tremendous growth. Nearly 1,000 DSH hospitals were participating in the program as of 2014, while the number of clinics has tripled and pharmacies has increased tenfold since 2010.