Advocacy Fuels Breast Cancer Advances
When Dr. John Huff was in medical school in the 1970s there were two wards he liked the least: the burn ward and the breast cancer ward. It’s not hard to imagine why the patients suffering from extreme burns were so upsetting, but thanks to today’s current awareness, Huff’s experience with breast cancer patients back then is truly a thing of the past.
Spalluto lands grant from AMA Women Physicians Section
Vanderbilt’s Lucy Spalluto, M.D., assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, was recently named to receive a 2015 Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for the Advancement of Women research grant from the American Medical Association Women Physicians Section.
The grants are awarded by the American Medical Association (AMA) to research programs focusing on advancing the study of women in the medical profession and strengthening the AMA’s ability to address the issues affecting women physicians and medical students.
AMA Awards Research Grants to Advance the Study of Women in Medicine
CHICAGO – In conjunction with Women in Medicine Month, the American Medical Association (AMA)'s Women Physicians Section along with the AMA Foundation today announced the winners of the
Radiology Honored with Distinguished Investigator Awards
Two leaders in imaging science at Vanderbilt University are among 37 recipients of the 2015 Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research (ARR), academy officials announced last week.
Morgan named to NIH Neuroimaging Study Section
Victoria Morgan, Ph.D., associate professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, has been named to serve as a member of the Neuroscience and Ophthalmic Imaging Technologies Study Section in the Center for the Scientific Review (CSR) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She will serve a four-year term.
Morgan, also an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has participated in extensive research about the pre-surgical application of functional MRI in Epilepsy.
