ACTSI Investigators and Awardees in the News
Douglas Bremner, MD, ACTSI investigator and Emory professor was quoted on MinnPost.com in the article Obama's physical: Who decided an LDL of 138 is bad - or that an annual checkup is good? on March 1. ACTSI investigators Chris Larsen, MD, PhD and Thomas Pearson, MD were featured in the Emory Health Magazine article Changing nature's course. ACTSI investigator, Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD became Rollins professor and chair of epidemiology in Emory's Rollins School of Public Health on March 1. She will retain her joint appointment in the medical school (cardiology). Vaccarino, who is a current fellow of the Woodruff Leadership Academy, directs the Emory Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Epidemiology and has a joint appointment in the Nutrition and Health Sciences Program in the Laney Graduate School. Read more... Javed Butler, MD, MPH, ACTSI investigator, director of heart failure research at Emory Healthcare, and associate professor of medicine at Emory SOM was featured in the Emory Health Now Blog in the article Predicting individual risk for heart failure on March 2.
Nadine Kaslow, PhD, ACTSI pilot grant awardee and chief psychologist and vice chair at Emory SOM was quoted on ABC News for the story Andrew Koenig's long, losing battle with depression on February 26. Kaslow was also featured in the Emory Health Now Blog story Nia Project: Helping Victims of Violence on March 1.