Emily Waltenbaugh

The latest results from an annual poll of Tennessee parents from the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy again show education and school quality is the leading concern parents have for their children for the third consecutive year. Statewide, parents listed their top concerns as 1) education and school quality (43%), 2) bullying, including… Read More

Nationwide analysis finds variants may confer more than elevated risk of kidney disease. A sweeping analysis published in JAMA Internal Medicine found people harboring apolipoprotein 1 (APOL1) gene variants were at increased risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) and dying following… Read More

Dr. Lourdes Estrada (MSTP Associate Director), her husband Larry, and their sweet pup Sadie just finished logging for their log cabin. Next comes peeling and stacking!   John Shelley (G4) had a neighborhood block party thanks to our winter storm!   Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G4) and Christopher Gabriel… Read More

Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!… Read More

by Jack Trapani (G1) To kick off the new year, the MSTP Wellness Committee hosted MSTP Seminar on Wednesday, January 3rd. Titled “Making Space for Your Personal Life,” Drs. Ben Ho Park, Brian Grieb, Nathaniel Bloodworth, Jeffrey Schmeckpeper, Celestine Wanjalla, and Jean Wassenaar spoke as panelists. They each gave students… Read More

Approximating Projections of Conformational Boltzmann Distributions with AlphaFold2 Predictions: Opportunities and Limitations. Brown BP, Stein RA, Meiler J, Mchaourab HS. J Chem Theory Comput. 2024 Jan 12. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01081. Online ahead of print. Protein thermodynamics is intimately… Read More

Collegiate tennis players aren’t using enough sunscreen, a new survey finds. And collegiate golfers aren’t either.  As reported in Clinics in Dermatology, Georgina Sellyn, MA, Ashley Karpinos, MD, MPH, and research partners surveyed members of tennis and golf teams in five National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I conferences. Spending up to four hours per… Read More

According to a recent study released in Pediatrics, youth who suffer nonfatal firearm injuries have a significantly increased risk of hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, outpatient visits and costs in the 12 months following injury compared to youth without a firearm injury. “We’ve seen firearm injuries in youth dramatically climb over… Read More

New study findings from JAMA Network Open announced that most infants that were admitted to the intensive care or high acuity unit during fall of 2022 due to infection with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) were healthy and born at term prior to infection. The study results aid preventative interactions to protect… Read More