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For the second consecutive year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been designated as a Comprehensive Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Center of Excellence by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. It remains the only center in Tennessee with the prestigious accolade. The designation affirms that VUMC has been found to have the training, personnel, equipment and experience needed to manage patients requiring radiopharmaceutical therapy. 

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The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences is happy to share that Jennifer Williams, MD, Associate Professor and Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging, has been named the Assistant Medical Director of Vanderbilt Imaging Services (VIS). VIS facilities provide outpatient imaging services at various locations in Nashville, TN (Hillsboro, Midtown, One Hundred Oaks) and Franklin, TN (Cool Springs). In her new role, Dr. Williams will work alongside Morgan Anderson, MD, Associate Professor and Medical Director of VIS. 

The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences is proud to share that Associate Professor Jessica Leschied, MD, FRCPC, FAAP, has joined the department’s Diagnostic Radiology (DR) residency program’s leadership team as Assistant Program Director (APD). “Dr. Leschied has played an invaluable role in education over the last year,” says Daniel Brown, MD, FSIR, Carol D. and Henry P. Pendergrass Professor and Chair of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. “Becoming an APD for the DR residency is a natural next step for her.”