“Our study supports a two-hit model of IPF,” said Timothy Blackwell, M.D., the Ralph and Lulu Owen Chair in Medicine, Division Director of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care and senior author on the study.
Dr. Jennifer Johnson and Dr. James West in their lab in MRB IV are studying a new drug for the treatment of arterial hypertension
Dr. Gordon Bernard, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Melinda Owen Bass Professor of Medicine, Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Division, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Science, and Chairman, Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
John Newman, M.D., Elsa S. Hanigan Professor of Pulmonary Medicine, with colleagues Rizwan Hamid, Amy Robertson, and Co-PI John Phillips III, M.D., David T. Karzon, Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Medical Genetics and Genomic Medicine have secured a $7.2 million grant from the NIH for VUMC to participate in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
Rizwan Hamid, M.D., Ph.D. (left), James West, Ph.D., Ling Yan, Ph.D., and colleagues are studying bone marrow cells’ role in pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Pierre Massion, M.D., Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Medicine, has been named to direct the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Initiative.
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The Division is directed by Dr. Timothy Blackwell, Ralph and Lulu Owen Chair in Medicine. The Division is composed of over 80 faculty and over 130 staff members, serving a wide range of clinical programs, clinical and basic science research, and a strong Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program. The Division has over 75 current funded research grants including large multidisciplinary grants and two training grants for interested fellows. The Division has activities in two hospitals, Vanderbilt University Hospital and the Nashville Veterans Administration Hospital. Specialized clinical programs include a Cystic Fibrosis Center, Lung Transplantation, Pulmonary Fibrosis Center, and a Pulmonary Hypertension Center. Each clinical center is nationally recognized for excellence, and each center is linked to active research, both basic and translational. The Vanderbilt Pulmonary Division has a longstanding interest and scientific leadership in ARDS, sepsis, and Intensive Care Medicine, and has spearheaded many major clinical trials in ICU management. Active research programs in this area include cognitive outcomes in critical illness, ventilator management, biomarkers of lung injury, and nutrition in the ICU. Other major research programs include basic science and epidemiology of asthma, oxidant injury in the lungs, pleural diseases, pulmonary vascular diseases, lung injury and repair, pulmonary host defense, and a growing program in lung carcinogenesis and early lung cancer detection. We accept four fellows per year in the three-year Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program, and offer additional fellowship training as needed to develop investigative careers. We also accept three fellows per year in the two-year Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program. We welcome you to browse the sections of this website to learn more about our Division and the opportunities we offer.
The division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine is one of the premier programs in the United States. Your contribution to the Vanderbilt Center for Lung Disease allows us to increase the impact of our research, optimize and personalize clinical care, and enhance physician training
Hello and welcome to my latest newsletter blog, as you know we have been going to a lot of festivals over the last year. Its lovely when you manufacture such beautiful herbals to go out and offer our free clinics and herbal first aid service in these places. we have met so many wonderful people and assisted with keeping you well in these places.
We have been setting up out at Woodfordia for the last day to open this evening for you to enjoy our services. We have traditional medicineroom medicinal services going this weekend. This includes our free naturopathic clinics open from 5pm Friday evening and daily across the festival from 9am till about 10pm. You can call by for medicinal herbal elixirs, herbalist assistance and our divine and favourite herbal body products.
I’m really excited about this weekend. Saturday morning I will be at Eumundi markets and beautiful Darina my naturopath sister is open at the festival looking after us on Friday night and Saturday day time. I am presenting at the Grove venue Saturday at 4pm on herbal first aid at home. This topic will go into the simple foods that you may already have in your garden or kitchen shelf There are so many curative and preventative medicines right at our finger tips and I will show you how to use them to help you stay well as preventatives, as well as how to use them for acute injuries.
Then on Sunday, I am presenting at 10.30am again in the Grove about prebiotics and how they can help you stay well. There are so many wonderful ways we can use herbs as immunity boosting tonics. Come and say hello at the stall. I will be there all Saturday evening and Sunday.
One of the greatest pleasures about being a herbalist is to make the herbal skin balms. before a festival we always step up on making enough for the event. This week has been no exception. Its Friday evening and we are in the dispensary making peppermint and chamomile skin balm for you…. So beautiful on your skin with the lushness of local Obi Obi Olive oil and local Kilcoy avocado oil…. we use organic chamomile flowers blended with organic peppermint leaf that is so aromatic And, of course we add therapeutic doses of essential oils.
This balm is great for spinal alignment in body work. When massaged into the great letting go points across your front shoulders, then it completely relaxes the somatic nervous system and helps you stay relaxed. As we know all nerves travel through the spine at their energetic and physical core. So, massaging this oil across your back is incredible to help that energy pass through and work on the strong Yang bladder lines, resulting in a relaxed body and allowing space for small realignments to naturally occur. This balm is cooling for feet and increasing circulation through the whole body whilst relaxing your emotional body is a pretty good reason to try some.
Also this balm with the combination of peppermint and chamomile is great for headache and tension relief. A really great digestive balm when massaged through the hara which is located around your belly button in a circular radius up to the bottom ribs and low to the hip bones. If you feel any constipation, digestive disorders or pain in this area them our balm really helps.