News Announcements

We had a busy week at the annual Association of University Radiologists (AUR) annual meeting this month in New Orleans!

Hypercarbia Challenge May Show Abnormal Brain Physiology in Concussed Athletes Increased cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in college athletes following a sports-related concussion may be related to recurring headache symptoms and could be an indicator of acute injury, according to a separate study presented at RSNA 2014 by Adam R. Militana, M.D., and colleagues.

Vanderbilt University researchers have demonstrated, for the first time in a primate model, that injury disrupts neural signaling in the spinal cord and that these changes can be measured non-invasively with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Radiology education expert Lori Deitte, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center as vice chair of Education and associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. Deitte comes to Vanderbilt from the University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, where she served as professor of Radiology, Graduate Medical Education Clinical Milestone Liaison, fourth-year medical student Radiology Clerkship director and fourth-year medical student Radiology advisor. Previously, she served as the Radiology Residency Program director.

C.E. Smith, M.D., has recently joined the Department of Radiology as Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences in our outpatient section. C.E. will be rotating through Vanderbilt Images Services at our locations in Belle Meade, Cool Springs, One Hundred Oaks and Hillsboro Imaging locations.  Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, C.E. received his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Stanford. He came to Vanderbilt for medical school and stayed on to complete his residency in radiology and a fellowship in neuroradiology.