The following article originally appeared in the Jan. 16, 2018, edition of the VUMC Reporter.   Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to starve a tumor and stop its growth with a newly discovered small compound that blocks uptake of the vital nutrient glutamine.

The following article originally appeared in the Jan. 11, 2018, edition of the VUMC Reporter.    Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) Lung Screening Program for patients at high risk for cancer recently reached a milestone, enrolling more than 700 patients and performing more than 1,000 CT screening examinations.

Last year, faculty, staff and trainees in the Department of Radiology participated in various department-sponsored community service opportunities where they donated time, money and goods to local and national organizations in need.

Arthur Fleischer, M.D., Professor of Radiology and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Medical Director of Ultrasound Imaging at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), published his eighth edition of “Fleischer’s Sonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology: Textbook and Teaching Cases” this month.

Kim Sandler, M.D., Assistant Professor of Radiology and co-director of the Vanderbilt Lung Screening Program (LSP), was recently awarded a grant by the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Medicine for a pilot of their Cancer Early Detection and Prevention (CEDP) Initiative.

Department of Radiology Director Sarah Moore, MBA, CNMT, RT(CT), was awarded the distinguished Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Five Pillar Leader Award at last week’s Leadership Assembly.

Last week, faculty and trainees in Vanderbilt’s Department of Radiology attended the 103rd Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2017 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The largest radiology industry meeting in the world, RSNA this year brought together more than 71,000 radiology leaders to connect and engage around the latest advances in medical imaging, technology and research.

Today, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Radiology faculty Drs. Eduard Chekmenev and Victoria Morgan received 2017 Distinguished Investigator awards from the Academy of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.