VUMC mourns loss of Radiology investigator Riddle
William Riddle, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died June 8 following a long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 65.
Jump-Starting a Radiology Patient Advisory Group: Key Learning Points and Accomplishments Over the First Year
Last year, the Department of Radiology launched the Radiology Patient Advisory Council in an effort to improve patient engagement and the department's approach to family- and patient-centered care for radiology processes and procedures.
Vanderbilt Nuclear Medicine Physicians Provide Key Evidence to FDA for Approval of New PET Imaging Agent
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a new positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent, 68Ga-DOTATATE, as a result of key evidence provided to them by nuclear medicine physicians in the Department of Radiology.
68Ga-DOTATATE, a synthetic somatostatin analog, binds eight times more strongly than the existing imaging agent, 111In-pentetreotide, to somatostatin receptors found in neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) in adult and pediatric patients.
Deitte and Fowler Awarded Inaugural Faculty Fellowship to Advance Medical Education
The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recently awarded Lori Deitte, M.D., Department of Radiology, and Leslie Fowler, M.Ed., Department of Anesthesiology, an inaugural Faculty Fellowship to Advance Medical Education.
Radiology Residents Couture, Landman Attend ACR 2016
Last week, Patrick Couture and Erik Landman, first year radiology residents and recently elected Tennessee Radiologic Society (TRS) Resident-Fellow Section (RFS) leaders, attended the American College of Radiology’s (ACR) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.