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John Gore, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt University Institute for Imaging Science (VUIIS), was named an honorary professor of Zhejiang University, China, during his recent visit to Zhejiang University School of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) has launched a new lung cancer screening program to provide low-dose CT scans for patients at high risk for the deadly disease. Current or former smokers ages 55 to 74 who have a history of 30 or more pack years of smoking are eligible for the scans.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Dan Brown, MD, was chief of Interventional Radiology and professor of Radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Brown is a graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, now Drexel University College of Medicine. He completed a residency program in radiology at Bryn Mawr Hospital and completed a fellowship in Interventional Radiology at Pennsylvania State University. He practiced at Washington University in St.

Natalie Ortiz is a typical six-year-old first grader — happy, active and fidgety — the kind of patient often sedated for a lengthy Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan. But with the help of a new sedation-free MRI program at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Ortiz was able to successfully complete a 90-minute scan of her spine recently, lying still in the tube surrounded by a giant circular magnet that loudly clanged, tapped and thumped around her.

According to annual figures available through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) is now ranked ninth in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the nation’s medical research agency. Receiving $292,413,440 in NIH grant support during calendar year 2013, VUSM moved up four places from its 2012 ranking by adding an additional $5,723,560 in funding. NIH funding support is considered a key indicator of an institution’s overall strength in biomedical research.