Ansible March 2022

Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence and professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected to membership in the American Society for Clinical Investigation. Internationally recognized for her pioneering efforts to effectively engage historically marginalized communities in the design and

Ronald Sokol, MD, has led the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) since 2008 and has been an NIH-funded investigator since 1986. Last month, Dr. Sokol accepted the position of the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer, Child Health, capping off an already distinguished career as a renowned research leader and expert in pediatric liver disease and transplantation. In his new

Five recent publications from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative's (N3C) Immunosuppressed/Compromised Domain Team highlight the increased risk COVID-19 poses to people with immunocompromising diseases (such as HIV and rheumatoid arthritis) and organ transplant recipients. The international team of researchers collaborated with other N3C Domain Teams, including the Pharmacoepi and COVID-19

University of Florida faculty are leading a multistate team to boost COVID-19 and influenza vaccination rates in parts of the country where health care skepticism is common and vaccination rates are low. With the emergence of the highly contagious omicron COVID-19 variant, experts say it is more important than ever to provide people with information and access to protective vaccines. The Our