Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Madan Jagasia, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of Medicine, and director of the Outpatient Stem Cell Transplant Program, will be featured in a TV special to premiere on the Biography Channel, Wednesday, December 5, at 10 p.m. The hour-long documentary, “Six Months,” focuses on two individuals, including former Vanderbilt-Ingram patient Janice Chaffee, [...]

This week the American Association of Cancer Research is showcasing work being done at Vanderbilt, in particular: Hispanic Health in Nashville 2007: Cancer Needs Assessment Nashville NAACP tobacco prevention initiative: An example of community-based participatory action research “Researchers report the results of successful initiatives begun in Nashville and among the Navajo Nation at the American [...]

by Dagny Stuart Country music duo Montgomery Gentry is set to heat up the stage during this winter’s cool Country in the Rockies event, Jan. 23-27, 2008, in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The annual T.J. Martell Foundation fund-raiser features some of country music’s best artists performing and cavorting on Rocky Mountain ski slopes. After a day [...]

Today’s opinion section of The Tennessean is devoted to lung cancer. Patients deserve public’s full support DAVID CARBONE, M.D., Ph.D., Vanderbit-Ingram Cance Center “When the National Cancer Institute released its annual report to the nation on cancer deaths, the headline was the drop in death rates…. But Tennessee didn’t fare well in that report. We [...]

by Nancy Humphrey Josh Smith, M.D., a general surgery resident working to obtain his Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology, has received the 2008-2009 Society of University Surgeons-Ethicon Scholarship Grant Award. He will appear before the Scientific Session of the 2011 Academic Surgical Congress Meeting to provide a final report on his research. Smith’s research [...]

State Sen. Douglas Henry, left, presents Benjamin F. Byrd III, M.D., a special resolution from the Tennessee General Assembly honoring the life and legacy of Byrd’s father, the late Benjamin F. Byrd Jr., M.D., former chairman of the board of overseers for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

by Dagny Stuart David Johnson, M.D., director of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and deputy director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has received the Clinical Researcher Award from the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). The annual research award is given to an individual whose research has significantly and positively impacted the oncology patient, family and [...]

Ingrid Mayer, M.D., assistant professor of Hematology/Oncology, is one of the inaugural recipients of the 2007 Grants in Translational Breast Cancer Research from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).