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Department of Radiology faculty and co-founder of the Women in Radiology (WIR) group Dr. Lucy Spalluto has been awarded a $4,000 seed grant from Vanderbilt University’s Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for “A Leadership Intervention to Further the Training of Female Faculty (LIFT-OFF) in Radiology.”

Faculty from the Department of Radiology recently attended the Career & Residency Fair at Meharry Medical College in Nashville. A historically black academic health institution, Meharry is one of the oldest and largest educators of minority physicians in the country.

The following story originally appeared in the April 6, 2017, edition of the VUMC Reporter.   A. Everette James Jr., M.D., J.D., a renowned imaging expert, art collector and former chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, died recently in North Carolina. He was 78.

The Department of Radiology’s Diagnostic (DR) and Interventional Radiology (IR) residency program directors Drs. Ed Donnelly and Peter Bream are happy to announce that the programs have filled for the 2017 National Resident Match Program Match.

The following story originally appeared in the March 30, 2017, editon of the VUMC Reporter.    The advent of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, notably colonoscopy, has reduced deaths from this common and deadly malignancy by 30 percent. Unfortunately, colonoscopy misses about 24 percent of small and flat polyps, which often develop into aggressive forms of CRC.