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“During the past few decades, physicists have created marvelous tools to peer inside living people,” says Bennett Landman, PhD, assistant professor of electrical engineer­ing, radiology and radiological sciences, biomedical engineering, computer engineer­ing and computer science. “We are just at the threshold where, as engineers, we can create systems to help unravel these data.”  

“I live for the problems we get to solve,” says Will Grissom, PhD, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, radiology and electrical engineering. The problems Grissom refers to revolve around magnetic resonance imaging – helping clinicians see inside the human body, discovering new ways to target diseases and creating more effective and efficient health care solutions.

Interventional Radiology is gaining momentum among medical students at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.  On September 10th, over 25 students from VUSM attended the 2nd annual introductory Interventional Radiology Interest group meeting.  Organized by PhD to MD students, Mary Ellen Koran and Jennifer Watchmaker, residents and attendin

The 1st Annual Residents vs. Attendings basketball championship took place Sunday September 7th 2014 at the Abramson Pavilion.  The championship game stipulations were set to a 4 vs. 4 matchup on the hardtop.  Game to 11 points by 1’s, with “make it take it” rules in effect. 

Vanderbilt’s Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences will provide annual lead shielding inspections of lead-lined aprons, vests, skirts/kilts, thyroid collars, gonadal shields, gloves and vinyl-type mobile shields every Thursday from Oct. 2 to Dec. 11, from 3:30 to 9 p.m. The Tennessee Department of Health and Environment, Radiological Health Division, requires personal protective lead shielding be inspected. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Vanderbilt require they be inspected visually and fluoroscopically each year.