Podcasts about vanderbilt center

Dr. Jeffrey Rathmell is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Immunobiology at the Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology. His research focuses on T cell metabolism in cancer. He talks about what T cells use for fuel and his work on fatty acid synthesis. He also discusses the 'obesity paradox' in cancer immunotherapy and his favorite parts of being a scientist and professor.

The Promise of Discovery Season 4, Episode 1 Adults with Down syndrome have a greatly increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease later in life. Ongoing research focuses on investigating different markers of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down Syndrome. These studies are specifically examining a neurotransmitter system called the cholinergic system that is vitally important for cognition and known to decline early in Alzheimer's disease in the neurotypical population. Understanding the progression of these different markers associated with Alzheimer's disease will provide essential data for future therapeutic trials in adults with Down Syndrome. Center for Cognitive Medicine website: https://www.vumc.org/ccm/welcome Trial Ready Cohort for Down Syndrome: https://www.vumc.org/ccm/trcds Featuring: Jason Russell, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychiatry Interviewer: Paul Newhouse, M.D., Jim Turner Professor of Cognitive Disorders; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology, and Medicine; Director, Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine; VKC Member

Local communities across the state are in serious need of compassionate, problem-solving health professionals who can build bridges between doctors and patients and ensure every individual receives the care they deserve. That's why the miniVHAN is proud to spotlight Tennessee's Community Health Workers (CHWs) initiative and show how these workers are filling health care gaps, especially for those in high-need, hard-to-reach populations. The podcast welcomes two women leading the charge: Nikayla Boyd, Ed.D., Executive Director of the Tennessee Community Health Worker Association, and Barbara Clinton, who served as the director of Vanderbilt Center for Health Services for more than 30 years. These experts share their unique experiences on the role of CHWs as bridge builders and trust makers, ensuring that all community members are connected to vital health and social services. Our conversation illuminates the way CHWs are transforming health outcomes across Tennessee by overcoming barriers such as resource scarcity and housing insecurity. Get ready to be inspired and learn how you can contribute to the initiative. This conversation is not just about health care—it's about people, community and the power of compassion in action. Learn more about the Community Health Worker Training Program of Tennessee (CHWTPT) and find out how to apply: https://www.vhan.com/new-state-program-available-to-train-community-health-workers/ 

ORAU's Research and University Partnerships Office offers Innovation Partnership Grants to bring together University Consortium members and ORAU subject matter experts for meaningful collaborations. One of those collaborations involved Vanderbilt University and the funding of a Tennessee University-Business Showcase focused on building a biomedical/biotech economic engine in Middle Tennessee and beyond. In this episode, host Michael Holtz talks to Brenda Blunt, ORAU senior director of health policy; Scott Massey, president and CEO of Global Action Platform at the Massey School of Business at Belmont University; and Charleson Bell, director of entrepreneurship and and biomedical innovation at the Vanderbilt Center for Innovation and Design. The conversation focuses on everything from the importance of investing in innovations, transforming Middle Tennessee' workforce and so much more.

Today I chat with Alex Sargent Capps, Allie Schmidt and Stella Barron about Adaptive Fashion. Alex has served on the Vanderbilt University Theatre faculty since 2001. She is currently the director of the Fiber Arts Build (FAB) Lab at Vanderbilt's Wond'ry Center for Innovation, serving the Vanderbilt and Nashville community by providing sewing and clothing design instruction to support people of all skill levels in the development of their creative ideas. Alex teaches costume design, fashion history, adaptive and sustainable fashion, focusing on how the process and product of design, through all mediums, most especially textile art, enhances the quality of our lives and relates to important issues in our contemporary world. Allie Schmidt, is the owner of Disability Dame Consulting, where she work with businesses to help create products and marketing campaigns that are accessible to the disability community. She identifies as physically disabled from a rare, undiagnosed illness that has left her arms paralyzed. She have a three-year-old son named Asher and a baby girl due in September 2023. She initially started Disability Dame as a website that gives tips to moms with disabilities and chronic illnesses. However, she quickly realized that what companies really needed was marketing and product development advice from someone with the lived experience of disability - that's when she pivoted into more of a consulting role. She is now working with Alex on building an adaptive fashion lab at Vanderbilt University‘s, The Wond'ry. Timeline: 01:42 Introductions and Visual Descriptions. 04:24 Allie Schmidt: Disability Dame Consulting. 07:17 Alex Sargent Capps and the work done at the Wond'ry Vanderbilt Center of Innovation. 08:55 What is adaptive fashion and the a description of the adaptive cape designed for Allie. 12:15 Stella weighing in from a mom's point of view on what she sees in the adaptive fashion realm and some of V's needs. 14:18 Bespoke vs universal solutions vs cost. 18:01 Revival in sewing interest. 20:25 Allie's lived experience of parenting with a disability 24:24 The language of disability: Universal design vs Adaptive Fashion vs Inclusive Design. 25:05 Closing Remarks. An edited transcript is available at www.raisingkellan.org This episode is sponsored by Dyersburg State Community College --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marsh-naidoo/message

Bios Featured in this episode: heath pearson, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology Amanda Phillips, Associate Professor, Departments of English, Women's and Gender Studies, Film & Media Studies, and American Studies Sivagami Subbaraman, Adjunct Professor, Department of Performing Arts; Former Founding Director for LGBTQ Resource Center (2008-2021) Elizabeth Velez, Adjunct Professor, Prisons and Justice Initiative; Professional Lecturer, Women's Studies Program Georgetown Resources LGBTQ Resource Center at Georgetown Women's and Gender Studies ResearchGuide- GU Library LGBTQ+ & Queer Studies Research Guide - GU Library LGBTQ History at Georgetown - GU Library Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS) The Prospect blog Additional Research/Scholarship Berheide, C. W., Carpenter, M. A. & Cotter, D. A. (2022). Teaching College in the Time of COVID-19: Gender and Race Differences in Faculty Emotional Labor. Sex Roles, 86, 441–455. Cheryan, S., Plaut, V. C., Davies, P. G., & Steele, C. M. (2009). Ambient belonging: How stereotypical cues impact gender participation in computer science. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 1045–1060. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016239 Chin, M. J., Quinn, D. M., Dhaliwal, T. K., & Lovison, V. S. (2020). Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers' Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes. Educational Researcher, 49(8), 566–578. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20937240 Davis, H.F.. (2017). Beyond trans: Does gender matter? New York: NYU Press. Good, C. , Rattan, A. & Dweck, C. S. (2012). Why Do Women Opt Out? Sense of Belonging and Women's Representation in Mathematics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(4), 700-717. doi: 10.1037/a0026659. Harbin, B. (2016). Teaching beyond the gender binary in the university classroom. Updated by Roberts, L.M. et al., (2020). Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Retrieved [2/9/23] from: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-beyond-the-gender-binary-in-the-university-classroom/ For more research, visit our episode webpage.

On this week's podcast Victoria, Metin, and Stephanie explore the positives and negatives of using social media in the classroom, as well as the impact it has had on art education.  While social media continues to evolve and shape the lives of students, educators have started to incorporate it into their lessons as a way to make learning relevant and engaging. In doing so, certain challenges have surfaced. During their discussion, they provide insight from the perspectives of elementary and secondary teachers by sharing personal anecdotes from their own experiences as teachers.ReferencesGreenhow, C., & Lewin, C. (2016). Social media and education: reconceptualizing the boundaries of formal and informal learning. Learning, Media and Technology, 41(1), 6-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1064954 McDaniel, R. (2016-Present). Leading Lines [Audio podcast]. Vanderbilt Center for Teaching and The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. https://leadinglinespod.com/ Tang, Y., & Hew, K. F. (2017). Using Twitter for education: Beneficial or simply a waste of time? Computers & Education, 106, 97-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2016.12.004 

Hosts Gil Bashe and Gregg Masters welcome Alex Jahangir, MD, MMHC, Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director, Division of Orthopaedic Trauma, and Executive Medical Director, Vanderbilt Center for Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery, he also chairs Nashville's Metro Coronavirus Task Force. Co-author Katie Seigenthaler is Managing Partner at FINN Partners. They discuss their book “Hot Spot: A Doctor's Diary From the Pandemic”. Hot Spot is Jahangir's narrative during the first year of COVID, derived from his op notes (the journal-like entries surgeons often keep following operations) and expanded to include his personal reflections and a glimpse into the inner sanctums of city and state governance in crisis. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play Healthcare NOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen

On today's episode of Leading Lines, producer and colleague Stacey Johnson brings us an interview with Jill Lassiter, assistant professor of health sciences at James Madison University. Professor Lassiter recently wrote a Faculty Focus article on service-learning in a virtual world, including the changes she made to her service-learning projects during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the interview, professor Lassiter shares three principles for adapting service-learning to challenging environments, describes some of the virtual service-learning projects her students have engaged in over the last few years, and offers advice for instructors new to service-learning on getting started with technology-supported service-learning. Links •Service-Learning and Community Engagement, a Vanderbilt Center for Teaching guide: https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-through-community-engagement/

Deep learning is the kind of learning we want form our students, but it's also the hardest kind of learning to foster in our students. In today's episode, we hear from Monica Sulecio de Alvarez, a learning experience designer based on Guatemala. Monica has taught for ten years in higher education on how to design for complex learning in online environments, and she's created competency-based distance learning modules for organizations in a variety of fields, including nutrition, ethics, human rights, and banking, among others. Monica is passionate about fostering deep learning in her students and helping other faculty do the same. Leading Lines producer Julaine Fowlin, our resident instructional designer at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, brings us this interview. Monica and Julaine talk about the differences between deep and shallow learning, as well as pedagogies and technologies we can use to move our students into deep learning. Links •Monica Sulecio de Alvarez's website, https://sites.google.com/site/nonstoppinglearner/•Monica on Twitter, https://twitter.com/monicaelearning•“Avoiding Educational Technology Pitfalls for Inclusion and Equity,” by Monica Sulecio de Alvarez and Camille Dickson-Deane, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-018-0270-0•“Shifting Paradigms from the Inside Out: Instructional Designers as Change Agents,” by Julaine Fowlin and Monica Sulecio de Alvarez, https://vimeo.com/showcase/3316648/video/172783950•Race to Nowhere, https://beyondtheracetonowhere.org/race-to-nowhere/•Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted Worldby Cal Newport, https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

In this episode, we continue our mini-series on bodies and embodiment produced by Leah Marion Roberts, Senior Graduate Teaching Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Leah has been interviewing experts who can help us understand why paying attention to bodies in teaching and learning spaces is so important. Leah talks with Susan Hrach, Director of the Faculty Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and Professor of English at Columbus State University. Leah reached out to Susan because Susan is the author of the book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning, published in 2021 by West Virginia University Press. In the interview, Susan Hrach shares some core understandings of bodies from her research, how those principles play out in the classroom, and some very practical ways to enhance student learning and belonging through attention to bodies and the physical learning environment. Links: • Susan's website - https://susanhrach.com/ • Susan's Book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning - https://wvupressonline.com/node/866 • @SusanHrach on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SusanHrach • Annie Murphy Paul, The Extended Mind (2021) https://anniemurphypaul.com/books/the-extended-mind/ • On Being podcast with Bessel Van Der Kolk (2021) https://onbeing.org/programs/bessel-van-der-kolk-trauma-the-body-and-2021/

This episode begins our new mini-series on bodies and embodiment. Leah Marion Roberts, senior graduate teaching fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, interviews experts who can help us understand why paying attention to bodies in teaching and learning spaces is important. The episodes explore how theories of the body make sense of social life and inequity; how learning is sensory, experiential, physical and emotional; how educators can incorporate embodied practices into their classrooms to enhance learning; and the relationships between bodies and technology. On this first installment, Leah talks with Aimi Hamraie, associate professor of medicine, health, and society and of American studies here at Vanderbilt University. They direct the Critical Design Lab and host the Contra* podcast on disability, design justice, and the lifeworld. They are also the author of Building Access: University Design and the Politics of Disability from the University of Minnesota Press. Aimi is trained as an intersectional feminist scholar, and their work focuses on disability, accessibility, and design. In the interview, Aimi shares some key conceptions of embodied learning from their interdisciplinary perspective, discusses the intersection of bodies and learning and technology, and provides some very interesting examples of teaching practices that tap into embodied learning. Links • Aimi Hamraie's website, https://aimihamraie.wordpress.com/ • Aimi Hamraie on Twitter, https://twitter.com/AimiHamraie • “Accessible Teaching in the Time of COVID-19,” https://www.mapping-access.com/blog-1/2020/3/10/accessible-teaching-in-the-time-of-covid-19 • Episode 208: Curb Cuts, 99% Invisible, https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/ • Ashley Shew, Virginia Tech, https://liberalarts.vt.edu/departments-and-schools/department-of-science-technology-and-society/faculty/ashley-shew.html • Jentery Sayers, University of Victoria, https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/english/people/regularfaculty/sayers-jentery.php

Eunice Ofori is a senior instructional designer at the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching at Tulane University in New Orleans. She has a PhD in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on instructional design and technology from Virginia Tech, and her career has focused on the use of instructional technology and sound pedagogy in a variety of teaching contexts. She's also a good friend of podcast producer Julaine Fowlin, the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching's very own assistant director for instructional design. Julaine recently interviewed Eunice about her passion for accessibility in the educational technology space. Eunice shares how she came to this work, what it looks like now, and lots of useful advice for instructors who want to make learning accessible for more students. Links • Eunice Ofori on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/eofori/ • Eunice Ofori on Twitter, https://twitter.com/EuniceO94407204 • SAMR model by Ruben Puentedura, https://www.edutopia.org/article/powerful-model-understanding-good-tech-integration • OneNote's Immersive Reader, https://www.onenote.com/learningtools

The Promise of Discovery Season 2, Episode 4: The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers in this episode are studying the connection of Down syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease. The Trial-Ready Cohort-Down Syndrome Study will identify individuals over age 35 with Down syndrome, obtain information about how they are functioning, and evaluate their brain activity and structure. This work will identify individuals with Down syndrome who may be eligible for a future medication study with the goal of reducing their risk for the development of Alzheimer's disease. VKC Researcher: Paul Newhouse, M.D., Jim Turner Professor of Cognitive Disorders; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology, and Medicine; Director, Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine Interviewer: Elise McMillan, J.D., Co-Director, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities; Director of Community Engagement and Public Policy; and Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Our guest in this episode is Dr. Alex Jahangir MD, MMHC. He is Nashville's COVID-19 Czar and Health Board Chair, Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Director, Division of Orthopedic Trauma, and Executive Medical Director, Vanderbilt Center for Trauma, Burn, and Emergency Surgery, and clearly WAAAY smarter than all of us guy. Titus Podcast... because the world is a clown show.

In this episode, Julaine talks with Courtney Gamston, professor of the practice of experiential education at the Harrison School of Pharmacy at Auburn University. Julaine worked at the Harrison School as an instructional designer and faculty developer before coming to Vanderbilt, and she knew that her former colleague Courtney had some very interesting experiences teaching during the pandemic. Courtney works with pharmacy students who are just starting to enter clinical practice settings, helping them apply what they've been learning in their pharmacy courses to real patients. Given the work Courtney's students do in clinical settings, the 2020 transition to remote teaching and learning meant she and her colleagues had to rethink how they taught their courses. In the interview, Courtney shares some of the methods she used to keep pharmacy education experiential during the pandemic and mentions a few changes to the course that worked out so well they'll persist when classes return to traditional settings. Links • Courtney Gamston's faculty page, http://pharmacy.auburn.edu/directory/courtney-gamston.php • “Never Going Back” blog series from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/never-going-back/

Dr. Hickson is the Founding Director of the CPPA, which he founded in 2002, and now serves in an advisory capacity as Executive Medical Director of Clinical Improvement Education for VHAN. Hickson, an internationally recognized expert in patient safety, medical malpractice and its causes and prevention, has for the past six years served as Vanderbilt University Medical Center's senior vice president for Quality, Patient Safety and Risk Prevention. He has also served as the longtime director of Clinical Risk and Loss Prevention and chair of the Medical Center's Self-Insurance Trust Committee. Link to claim CME credit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3 (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3DXCFW3) CME credit is available for up to 3 years after the stated release date Contact CEOD@bmhcc.org if you have any questions about claiming credit.

The Promise of Discovery Episode 14: This episode outlines research focused on a new treatment strategy for Rett syndrome and related disorders, tests the hypothesis that there may be specific Rett syndrome populations that are most likely to respond effectively and safely to the treatment, and discusses specific biomarkers, like EEG, that might be used to test how the brain responds. VKC Researcher: Colleen Niswender, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology; Director of Molecular Pharmacology, Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery Interviewer: Sheryl Anne Vermudez, Graduate Student in Pharmacology, Niswender laboratory

In October 2020, Stephen Kosslyn published a new book called Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come Alive. The book draws on Kosslyn’s experiences at Minerva, but also his very long and impressive career in higher education. He is the founder, president emeritus, and chief academic officer of Foundry College, which provides high-quality, research-informed online education for working adults. He’s also the founder and president of Active Learning Sciences, a consulting group that help institutions adopt active learning principles in online education. Prior to that, he was founding dean and chief academic officer at the Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute. And that all came after an amazing career as a professor of psychology at Harvard University and Stanford University. We have a great interview with Stephen Kosslyn to share with you. He recently facilitated a virtual workshop here at Vanderbilt on his new book, and we took the opportunity to talk with him for the podcast. You’ll hear a new voice in this interview: Julaine Fowlin, the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s new assistant director for instructional design. Julaine helped organized Stephen’s workshop, and she had a lot of great questions to ask him about his book. Kosslyn goes through his five principles for active learning, offers practical strategies for implementing these principles in the virtual classroom, and speaks to the important role motivation plays in learning. Links • Active Learning Online: Five Principles that Make Online Courses Come Alive, https://www.alinealearning.org/kosslyn-active-learning-online • Active Learning Sciences, https://www.activelearningsciences.com/ • Foundry College, https://foundrycollege.org/ • Minerva Schools at KGI, https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/ • Derek’s sketchnotes on Stephen Kosslyn’s 2014 talk about Minerva Schools, https://www.flickr.com/photos/derekbruff/15360156349/ • Jigsaw infographic, https://www.flickr.com/photos/vandycft/32869991478/ • “From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education,” Robert Barr and John Tagg, Change Magazine, 1995, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00091383.1995.10544672 • Julaine Fowlin on Twitter, https://twitter.com/julaine_fowlin

Today, we hear from Dr Gerald Hickson, the founder of the Vanderbilt Centre for Patient and Professional Advocacy. Jerry talks with host Tash Miles about professionalism in the healthcare context. Professionalism is key to keeping patients and practitioners safe and effective, and a crisis magnifies this need to pursue professionalism. Hear Jerry's insights on how health practitioners and leaders prepare for a crisis, how practice has changed in this current crisis, and how this keeps their patients safe. Learn more about the work of Jerry and his team on the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy website. Search for Taking Care in your podcast player to subscribe to all the latest episodes and to browse our archives for more great conversations. Email us at communications@ahpra.gov.au if you have any questions or comments.

Today, we hear from Dr Gerald Hickson, the founder of the Vanderbilt Centre for Patient and Professional Advocacy. Jerry talks with host Tash Miles about professionalism in the healthcare context. Professionalism is key to keeping patients and practitioners safe and effective, and a crisis magnifies this need to pursue professionalism. Hear Jerry’s insights on how health practitioners and leaders prepare for a crisis, how practice has changed in this current crisis, and how this keeps their patients safe.Learn more about the work of Jerry and his team on the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy website.Search for Taking Care in your podcast player to subscribe to all the latest episodes and to browse our archives for more great conversations. Email us at communications@ahpra.gov.au if you have any questions or comments.

Forrest Charnock is a senior lecturer in physics here at Vanderbilt University and the director of the undergraduate physics labs. Like other lab directors in 2020, Forrest had to get creative to adapt his labs to remote teaching and learning. In this episode, we’ll hear about his creativity in the interview, which was conducted by Thayer Walmsley, a doctoral student in physics here at Vanderbilt and a Teaching Affiliate at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching. Links • Physics labs at Vanderbilt, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/physicslabs/ • iOLab Wireless Lab System, http://www.iolab.science/

This week we welcome back our very first repeat guest, Dr. Stephen Patrick. Dr. Patrick and Dr. Morad sit down and discuss the new NAS predictor tool recently released by the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy. Find the tool here: https://www.childpolicy.org/nasrisk (https://www.childpolicy.org/nasrisk) No content or comments made in any TIPQC Healthy Mom Healthy Baby Podcast is intended to be comprehensive or medical advice. Neither healthcare providers nor patients should rely on TIPQC's Podcasts in determining the best practices for any particular patient.  Additionally, standards and practices in medicine change as new information and data become available and the individual medical professional should consult a variety of sources in making clinical decisions for individual patients. TIPQC undertakes no duty to update or revise any particular Podcast. It is the responsibility of the treating physician or health care professional, relying on independent experience and knowledge of the patient, to determine appropriate treatment.  

Did you know that NOWS is the new NAS? Learn more about the new AAP Clinical Report on Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome with lead author Dr. Stephen Patrick. Dr. Patrick is the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, and an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carol Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. In this episode, he teaches us about the approach to treating withdrawal in infants, the importance of keeping moms and babies together, and the need for destigmatizing addiction in healthcare.    Time Stamps 7:48 Case from Kashlak Children’s 8:38 Definition of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome  9:48 Clinical Presentation of NOWS 11:30 Scoring Systems 14:34 Importance of diagnosing NOWS 15:16 Opioid Crisis and Epidemiology 16:35 Risk Factors for developing NOWS 19:16 The role of structural racism and social determinants of health 21:05 Stigma of addiction 23:10 Building a therapeutic relationship 25:32 Breastfeeding 26:40 Toxicology testing 29:16 Structural racism  30:14 Non-pharmacologic management 31:58 Pharmacologic Management 35:16 Clinical course  37:40 Treatment and taper plan 40:20 Discharge planning 43:20 Outpatient Follow up 44:26 AAP Clinical Report Changes 46:46 Advocacy and Policy 47:14 Buprenorphine  50:18 Outro

In this episode, we talk with Heeryoon Shin, Mellon assistant professor of Asian art at Vanderbilt University. Heeryoon participated in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching's summer 2020 Online Course Design Institute, or OCDI for short, and we wanted to check in with her late in the semester to see how her online courses turned out. Heeryoon teaches courses on the art and architecture of Asia, with a special emphasis on South Asia. Her research interests include sacred and urban space, cross-cultural encounters, and architectural historiography in early modern and colonial South Asia. In our conversation, Heeryoon reflects on her first full semester of teaching online, what worked and what didn’t, and what changes she’s making for her spring courses. She talks about her decision to make portions of her courses asynchronous, her changing use of recorded video lectures, some successes in leading discussions on Zoom, and an Instagram activity her students found really fun. Links • Heeryoon Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/historyart/people/heeryoon-shin.php • “The ‘Change-up’ in Lectures” by Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish (1996), https://citl.indiana.edu/files/pdf/middendorf_kalish_1996.pdf

Dr. Kari Johnson is currently an assistant professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a neuropharmacologist with an interest in the long-term effects of alcohol abuse on neural circuits. Kari completed her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University before continuing her training as a postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. All through her career, the recurring theme in Kari's work has been GPCRs and more specifically Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors. Join me and learn more about how Kari studies GPCRs in basal ganglia circuits following chronic alcohol exposure in mice.

In this episode, we talk with James M. Lang about distraction and attention, the subject of his new book. He is a professor of English and the director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University in Massachusetts. He’s the author of five books, including Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning, Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty, and his most recent book, Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. Jim writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for the Chronicle of Higher Education, and he edits the “Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” series of books for West Virginia University Press. Jim puts a ton of research into his books, and he’s an amazing communicator, as you’ll hear in this interview. We talk about laptop bans and classroom norms, the ethics of attention and cognitive diversity, and much more. Links • James Lang’s website, https://www.jamesmlang.com/ • James Lang on Twitter, https://twitter.com/LangOnCourse • Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It, https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/james-m-lang/distracted/9781541699816/ • James Lang’s essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/author/james-m-lang • From 2008, Lang’s appearance on the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching podcast, discussing teaching first-year students, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/2008/05/episode-5-james-lang-on-teaching-first-year-students/

In this episode, Alex and Sebastian share tips and tricks they have learned that can be helpful for people teaching for the first time. We touch on things we do before our very first lecture and some other expectations for the rest of the semester. Sebastian Tello-Trillo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in the University of Virginia. Alex Hollingsworth is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Indiana University. Things we mentioned in this episode: Vanderbilt Center for Teaching Sebastian's recommendation of the week: Mortality Effects and Choice Across Private Health Insurance Plans Alex's recommendation of the week: Check Robert Talbert site! Bonus: Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hidden-curriculum/message

In this episode, we’re talking with one of the participants in the Vanderbilt Online Course Design Institute, Susan Kevra, a principal senior lecturer in French who also teaches in our American studies program. Prior to this spring’s remote teaching, Susan had never taught online. She knew she would be teaching online this summer, with an American studies writing intensive course on food, so she signed up for our institute. She actually participated the two weeks immediately prior to her summer course, so she was designing in a hurry! In our conversation, we talk about experiential learning activities, building community and fostering social presence, balancing asynchronous and synchronous modes of instruction, and the role of visual design in the online learning experience. Links • Susan Kevra’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/french-italian/faculty/susan-kevra-2/ • Online Course Development Resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://www.vanderbilt.edu/cdr/ • Vanderbilt Center for Teaching blog, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/blog/

In this edition of DCS Talks, DCS Assistant Commissioner, Julie Rotella interviews Jon Ebert, PsyD and Tarah Kuhn, Ph.D., psychologists from the Vanderbilt Center of Excellence, to discuss the virtual sessions, Roots of Resiliency that are currently being offered weekly for parents to ask questions, gather resources and interact around shared experiences.

We’re back with another episode exploring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on higher education. This time we are speaking with one of Derek’s colleagues at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, Cynthia Brame, about the Online Course Design Institute that was launched in May to help Vanderbilt faculty get ready to teach online this summer and possibly this fall. Cynthia Brame was one of the designers of institute, and she’s been one of the institute facilitators since launching on May 4th. She’s an associate director at center and a principal senior lecturer in biological sciences, where she teaches a large-enrollment biochemistry course. At the center, she acts as liaison to the STEM departments on campus and leads the Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows program, among other duties. She’s also the author of the book Science Teaching Essentials: Short Guides to Good Practice, and prior to working at the center, she was associate professor and chair of biology at Centenary College in Louisiana. Links • Cynthia Brame’s website and blog, https://cynthiabrame.org/ • @CynthiaBrame on Twitter, https://twitter.com/CynthiaBrame • Science Teaching Essentials: Short Guides to Good Practice, https://www.elsevier.com/books/science-teaching-essentials/brame/978-0-12-814702-3 • Online Course Design Institute, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/ocdi/

Which is scariest: barn swallows, wolf spiders, or middle-schoolers? If you’re Dr. Matt Wilkins, the answer is “none of the above,” because nothing is scary when you’ve braved the amorous wilds of Romanian hostels and run afoul of Russian military personnel while conducting fieldwork in Siberia. During this week’s episode, Matt shares these stories—complete with bird calls, Russian accents, and the musical stylings of the “veloci-rapper”— and so much more. He tells Jocelyn and Bradley how a longtime fascination with linguistics gave rise to his interest in animal communication systems, which in turn fueled his interest in science communication and his Galactic Polymath ambitions. The friends also discuss key challenges facing science communicators, including common misconceptions about evolution and how Matt addresses these, and Matt’s advice for scicomm-curious researchers. You can find Matt on Twitter @mattwilkinsbio, and learn more about his research and outreach projects at http://www.mattwilkinsbio.com/. Additional links: SciComm 2020: http://www.scicommcon.org/ Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/cso/ More Recycling Won’t Solve Plastic Pollution:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/more-recycling-wont-solve-plastic-pollution/ “Pygids” video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=IVrJCkWRXOc&feature=emb_logo Humor as a Learning Tool (SciComm 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6RgmDcP42M Numbat Media: A case study in the challenges of starting an outreach project (SciComm 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5S0tpPlFag How Much Science is There? (infographic by Randall Munroe): https://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/scicomm/infographic.jpgContact Science! With Friends (especially if you’re a scientist interested in a lively conversation about your science and science story) at Gmail or Twitter!• Gmail: sciwithfriends@gmail.com• Twitter @SciWithFriends• Facebook: Science With FriendsScience! With Friends Podcast is created and hosted by Jocelyn Bosley (@SciTalker) and Bradley Nordell (@bradleynordell) and Produced by the Basement Creators Network. You can find them at https://www.basementcreators.network/Sound Editing by Vince Ruhl

This week on our next installment of Hackademics, we discuss pedagogical practices in higher education with Dr. Susan Blum. This episode delves into classroom practices to promote learning, from (un)grading to physical environments. Dr. Blum is Professor of Anthropology at Notre Dame, whose research focuses on the big question, "What does the world look and feel like to people, and what are the factors that shaped those views?". Dr. Blum has also spent years reading and writing about learning and teaching practices, applying anthropological perspectives to the classroom. To learn more about her, check out her university webpage https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/susan-blum/, send her Susan.Blum.24@nd.edu an email at afuentes@nd.edu, or follow her on Twitter @SusanDebraBlum. Additional resources to learn more about learning and teaching include the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching website at https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/ or the Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at http://www.crlt.umich.edu/, as well as Dr. Blum's book, "I love learning; I hate school.": An Anthropology of College. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

Each year thousands of babies born neonatal abstinence syndrome and require specialized medical and psycho-social support. In this episode we discuss the care for newborns who have been exposed to substances, specifically how primary care providers can understand the child's needs and support their caregivers. We are joined by Stephen Patrick, MD from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and recorded this discussion live from the 2019 American Academy of Pediatrics NCE in New Orleans.  Dr. Patrick is a neonatologist and associate professor of pediatrics and is Director at the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy. You can view Dr. Patrick's 2019 AAP NCE plenary session on this topic here. You can reach Dr. Patrick on Twitter @stephenwpatrick and Dr. Brumbaugh on Twitter @DBrumbaughMD Do you have thoughts about today's episode or suggestions for a future topic? Write to us, chartingpediatrics@childrenscolorado.org 

Dr. James Powers is the Clinical Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging. Dr. Powers is Associate Professor of Medicine as well as Associate Professor of Gerontologic Nursing, Department of Family and Community Health. Author of over 75 papers, books, and book chapters he has devoted his academic career to Geriatric Nutrition, Education, and Healthcare Quality and Safety. He has mentored over 1200 trainees while at Vanderbilt and holds Fellowship in the American College of Physicians, American College of Nutrition, American Geriatrics Society, Gerontologic Society of America, and the Royal Society of Medicine. For more information, visit https://www.vumc.org/cqa/.

Dr. James Powers is the Clinical Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quality Aging. Dr. Powers is Associate Professor of Medicine as well as Associate Professor of Gerontologic Nursing, Department of Family and Community Health. Author of over 75 papers, books, and book chapters he has devoted his academic career to Geriatric Nutrition, Education, and Healthcare Quality and Safety. He has mentored over 1200 trainees while at Vanderbilt and holds Fellowship in the American College of Physicians, American College of Nutrition, American Geriatrics Society, Gerontologic Society of America, and the Royal Society of Medicine. For more information, visit https://www.vumc.org/cqa/.

We have something special for this final episode of the academic year. Usually, we talk with educators, researchers, and technologists about what they’re doing now, and ask them a question or two about where they’d like to see educational technology go in the next few years. In this episode, however, we’re going to camp out in the future. The Vanderbilt Center for Teaching recently convened a faculty panel to discuss the future of digital literacies where we asked our panelists to gaze into their crystal balls and engage in a wide-ranging and wildly speculative conversation about the future of digital literacies. You’ll hear from Doug Fisher, associate professor of computer science and faculty head of Warren College, one of Vanderbilt’s residential colleges; Corbette Doyle, senior lecturer in leadership, policy, and organizations; and Jaco Hamman, associate professor of religion, psychology, and culture. This episode is a little longer than usual, but it’s worth it. And stay tuned after the panel for a couple of programming notes. Links • Doug Fisher’s faculty page, https://engineering.vanderbilt.edu/bio/douglas-fisher • @DougOfNashville on Twitter, https://twitter.com/DougOfNashville • Corbette Doyle’s faculty page, https://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/corbette-doyle • @CorbetteDoyle on Twitter, https://twitter.com/corbettedoyle • Jaco Hamman’s faculty page, https://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/jaco-hamman • @JacoHamman on Twitter, https://twitter.com/jacohamman • Growing Down by Jaco Hamman, https://www.amazon.com/Growing-Down-Theology-Nature-Virtual/dp/1481306464 • The Revenge of the Analog by David Sax, https://www.amazon.com/Revenge-Analog-Real-Things-Matter/dp/1610395719

Kentucky has one of the highest opioid addiction rates in the country and it isn't slowing down. Recently WKYT traveled to Nashville and was given the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Erin Calipari. She is the oldest of University of Kentucky Basketball head coach John Calipari's three children. She may have a famous last name, but she is making her own mark in the world of science and holding her own court at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with her research on drug addiction and the brain. Calipari says she has learned a lot from her father and his years in the coaching spotlight. Her sport now, isn't basketball, but rather science where she is the head coach and her court is this lab. "Sports are very similar right, you have a team of people working together to get to a common goal," said Erin Calipari, Ph.D. Inside the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research you will find Calipari leading her team of scientists and researchers.

Kentucky has one of the highest opioid addiction rates in the country and it isn't slowing down. Recently WKYT traveled to Nashville and was given the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Erin Calipari. She is the oldest of University of Kentucky Basketball head coach John Calipari's three children. She may have a famous last name, but she is making her own mark in the world of science and holding her own court at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with her research on drug addiction and the brain. Calipari says she has learned a lot from her father and his years in the coaching spotlight. Her sport now, isn't basketball, but rather science where she is the head coach and her court is this lab. "Sports are very similar right, you have a team of people working together to get to a common goal," said Erin Calipari, Ph.D. Inside the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research you will find Calipari leading her team of scientists and researchers.

In the United States, one infant is born every 15 minutes with withdrawal symptoms after being exposed to opioids before birth -- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) -- according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. Typically, affected neonates must remain hospitalized, usually in neonatal intensive care units, for monitoring and management of opioid withdrawal symptoms. Hospital length of stay (LOS) for these neonates averages 17-23 days. In this podcast featuring Dr. Stephen Patrick, an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy, discusses how he’s improving outcomes for opioid-exposed infants and women with substance-use disorders and reduced NAS infant’s LOS.

In this episode, the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s assistant director for educational technology, Stacey Johnson, recently talked with Kylie about a new practicum the CFT launched aimed at preparing grad students to teach online. Stacey and Kylie discuss the origin and structure of the practicum, as well as a really useful framework for teaching online that Kylie learned about while designing the practicum. Links • Kylie Korsnack’s English department page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/kylie-korsnack • @kkorsnack on Twitter, https://twitter.com/kkorsnack • We Teach Languages Episode 90 – Part 2 of Stacey’s interview with Kylie, https://weteachlang.com/2019/02/01/ep-90-with-kylie-korsnack/ • Garrison D. R., Anderson, T., & Archer, W. (1999). Critical inquiry in a text-based environment: Computer conferencing in higher education. The Internet and Higher Education 2(2-3): 87-105. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751600000166 • “Re-Imagining Revision: The Digital Essay,” Kylie’s blog post on digital revisions, https://www.hastac.org/blogs/kyliejk/2017/01/24/16-revisiting-pedagogy-project-and-re-imagining-revision • Certificate in College Teaching @ Vanderbilt CFT, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/programs/cict/

This episode of VandyVox features a short audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising.” Sarah Saxton was a student in a fall 2018 anthropology course taught by Sophie Bjork-James on the politics of reproductive health in the United States. The final assignment in Sophie’s course asked students to research a contemporary reproductive health issue and produce a piece of video or audio that explores that issue. Sarah Saxton chose to look at gene editing, an emerging set of biotechnologies that have the potential to allow parents to pick and choose physical features of their children. Sarah Saxton used what she learned about gene editing and its potential effects on society to write and produce a piece of science fiction in audio form exploring the dangers of taking gene editing too far. For those interested in using audio assignments in their teaching, what follows is a little background on the assignment that led to “Hagar Rising”… Sophie Bjork-James, Sarah Saxton's professor, was a participant in the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s Course Design Institute in 2016. The theme of that institute was “Students as Producers,” with a focus on assignments and activities that engage students not only as consumers of information, but also as producers of knowledge. Sophie’s multimedia assignment leveraged some of the strategies discussed at the institute, including asking students for project proposals and storyboards to provide opportunities for feedback as they develop their projects. Sophie also asked students to submit a producer’s statement along with each project, one that included a literature review, a reflection on what the student learned through the project, and a discussion of the process used to create the final product. Producer’s statements like these are useful for evaluating student work on non-traditional assignments like podcasts. Sophie told VandyVox host Derek Bruff that the assignment turned out very well in her politics of reproductive health course, and she’s planning on making podcasts a regular part of the first-year writing seminars she teaches in the future.

Nicotine and your brain! Don’t worry, we aren’t talking about cigarettes.Today’s guest on Bulletproof Radio is Dr. Paul Newhouse. Dr. Newhouse has a broad background in human cognitive medicine and neuroscience and has 40 years of studying cognitive models in humans under his belt. He has spent a lot of that time studying nicotine’s effects on the brain.He’s the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine in the department of Psychiatry and behavioral science at Vanderbilt.Dave Asprey and Dr. Newhouse get into how cognition works and how specific receptors are important for things like Alzheimer’s Disease or ADHD.Enjoy the show!

Nicotine and your brain! Don’t worry, we aren’t talking about cigarettes.Today’s guest on Bulletproof Radio is Dr. Paul Newhouse. Dr. Newhouse has a broad background in human cognitive medicine and neuroscience and has 40 years of studying cognitive models in humans under his belt. He has spent a lot of that time studying nicotine’s effects on the brain.He’s the director of the Vanderbilt Center for Cognitive Medicine in the department of Psychiatry and behavioral science at Vanderbilt.Dave Asprey and Dr. Newhouse get into how cognition works and how specific receptors are important for things like Alzheimer’s Disease or ADHD.Enjoy the show!

In this episode, we interview the graduate students behind Scholars at Play, a podcast focused on the critical discussion of video games: Derek Price (German), Terrell Taylor (English), and Kyle Romero (History). Stacey Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, talks to the Scholars at Play team about the origin of their podcast, how it intersects with their teaching, and how it is shaping their academic careers. Through Scholars at Play, these graduate students are creating their own path for the kinds of interdisciplinary and digital scholarship they want to practice. Links · Scholars at Play, https://soundcloud.com/scholarsatplay · Derek Price on Twitter, https://twitter.com/Digital_Derek · Terrell Taylor on Twitter, https://twitter.com/BlackSocrates · Kyle Romero on Twitter, https://twitter.com/E_Kyle_Romero · Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, https://www.vanderbilt.edu/curbcenter/ · HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/

In this episode, we talk with Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University. He discusses his interest in designing assignments for students that give them opportunities to make a different in the world outside their classroom. One of those assignments was “Health Policy Radio,” a podcast that he and his health policy students created. In the interview, he describes the assignment and the ways it enhanced his students’ learning. Links • Health Policy Radio with Gilbert Gonzales, https://soundcloud.com/user-175461561 • Gilbert Gonzales’ faculty page, https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/person/gilbert-gonzales-phd • @gilbgonzales on Twitter, https://twitter.com/GilbGonzales • Vanderbilt News story on Gilbert’s University Course, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/03/06/university-course-students-meet-with-legislators-during-visit-to-general-assembly/ • Course Design Institute at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/cdi/

In this episode, we continue exploring one of the themes of this season of Leading Lines: non-traditional assignments. We talk with Haerin (Helen) Shin, assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University, who gives her students a choice for final projects: a traditional research paper or a creative, usually digital, project. Helen describes a few examples of digital projects, talks about how she structures and scaffolds these assignments, and explains why these nontraditional assignments help her students achieve her learning objectives. Links • Haerin Shin’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/english/bio/haerin-shin • The Velveteen Rabbit: Exploring the Boundary Between the Real and the Unreal, by Jung Min Shin, http://jasmine138.wixsite.com/velveteenrabbit • Seven Yellow Faces: Strangers in a Home Land, by Ellen Q. Wang, http://lnwang95.wixsite.com/seven-yellow-faces • The Future of Identity Theft, by Miguel Moravec, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cu1pKZJSEedzJLeTBhMXZDVlE/view • Flipping the Flipped Classroom: The Beauty of Spontaneous and Instantaneous Close Reading, by Haerin Shin, https://tomprof.stanford.edu/posting/1435 • Students as Producers resources from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/tag/students-as-producers/ • Students as Producers presentation by Derek Bruff, https://prezi.com/1cnevevepyjo/jitt-2017-students-as-producers/

In this episode, we feature an interview with Enoch Hale, Director of Teaching and Learning Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been involved in a variety of innovative teaching and learning projects at VCU, and he has a way of making clear the connection between a piece of technology and the kinds of student learning we might want to foster with that technology. In the interview, Enoch talks about three technologies he’s been experimenting with, in his own teaching and in his faculty development work, and he points to some general principles of teaching with technology. • @EnochHale10 on Twitter, https://twitter.com/enochhale10 • Enoch Hale’s blog, http://enochhale.blogspot.com/ • Telescopic Text, http://www.telescopictext.org/ • UNIV 200 Course Description, http://www.telescopictext.org/text/C3vhiMMnA6xtL • Flipgrid, https://info.flipgrid.com/ • PFF Grid, a FlipGrid site Enoch used with a graduate course on pedagogy, https://flipgrid.com/b75bb61b • Rethink Your Space, the motherblog for a VCU learning community on learning spaces, https://rampages.us/spaces/ • Digital Timelines, a teaching guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu//cft/guides-sub-pages/digital-timelines/

In this episode, Denise, Brian, and Matt discuss grading practices in the classroom, including the history and philosophy behind different grading systems and impact these styles can have on students. Here are some links to topics in today’s podcast: Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s Recommendation on Grading Jay Matthews on the flaws of an A-F grading scale and why it will stay New York Times: History of College Grade Inflation History of Higher Ed Grading Washington Post: Study shows high school grades best predictor of success NEA: GPA and non-cognitive skills best predictor of success Music courtesy of http://www.bensound.com/

In this episode, we speak with LaTonya Trotter, assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Trotter is a medical sociologist, using ethnographic approaches to study how changes in the medical workplace alter how we think about illness and medical care. She was also a Junior Faculty Teaching Fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, and she thoughtfully selects technologies for use in her teaching that align with the goals she has for her students learning. Links: • LaTonya Trotter’s faculty page, https://as.vanderbilt.edu/sociology/bio/latonya-trotter • Her new faculty profile, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2013/10/07/new-faculty-latonya-trotter/ • Junior Faculty Teaching Fellows at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/programs/jftf/ • Teaching with Blogs, a guide from the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-with-blogs/

In this episode, we feature an interview with Zoe LeBlanc, a sixth-year doctoral student in history at Vanderbilt University. Zoe studies networks, ideas, and spaces in modern history, and her dissertation examines the role of Cairo, Egypt, as a hub for anti-colonial activism in Africa during the Cold War. Zoe has been a graduate fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning, and at the Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities. She helped launch a “Conversations on Digital Pedagogy” series at Vanderbilt, and continues to build and enrich the digital humanities community at Vanderbilt and elsewhere. We talked with Zoe about her experiments in digital pedagogy, her approach to using educational technology, and her career path as an aspiring digital historian. Links • Zoe LeBlanc’s website, http://zoeleblanc.com/ • @zoe_leblanc on Twitter, https://twitter.com/zoe_leblanc • HASTAC, https://www.hastac.org/ • HASTAC at Vanderbilt, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/hastac-scholars/ • Vanderbilt Center for Digital Humanities, https://my.vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanities/ • Twitter in the Classroom, a Conversation on Digital Pedagogy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_WwQChezJA

In this episode, we feature an interview with Lee Forester, Professor of German at Hope College, and Bill VanPatten, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at Michigan State University. Stacey M. Johnson, Assistant Director for Educational Technology at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, sat down with Forester and VanPatten at a language teaching conference last summer. Both faculty members have developed online learning materials, including textbooks, for language instruction, and Stacey’s conversation with the two professors explored ways that instructors use digital textbooks and publisher-provided learning platforms. As a companion to this podcast episode, Stacey Johnson has created a new teaching guide on working with publisher-provided online platforms, shared as part of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s collection of more than 70 teaching guides on various topics. The new guide features more audio from Lee Forester and Bill VanPatten, as well as other language instructors Stacey interviewed recently. More on this episode’s guests: Lee Forester is Professor of German at Hope College, where he teaches all levels of German. He is the co-founder of a small textbook publishing company called Evia Learning, and co-author of three language textbooks: Auf geht's! (beginning German), Weiter geht's! (intermediate German) and Ritmos (beginning Spanish). His research and curricular work focus on effective use of technology, intercultural learning and creating language materials that promote personal transformation for students. Bill VanPatten is Professor of Spanish and Second Language Studies at the Michigan State University. He has published seven books, seven edited volumes, six language textbooks (including the movies Sol y viento, Liaisons, and the tele series Destinos), and 120 articles and book chapters. Two of his articles are listed in the top ten citations for articles in Studies in Second Language Acquisition and he has received local and national awards for his research, teaching, leadership, and mentoring. He is a frequently invited speaker within the United States and abroad. He is also the host of a popular podcast on Second Language Acquisition called Tea with BVP. Links: • Lee Forester’s faculty page - http://www.hope.edu/directory/people/forester-lee/index.html • Bill VanPatten’s faculty page - https://sites.google.com/site/bvpsla/ • Tea with BVP, Bill VanPatten’s podcast - http://www.teawithbvp.com/ • @teawithBVP on Twitter - https://twitter.com/teawithbvp • Principles of Communicative Language Teaching, from the University of Texas - https://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/modules/teacher/03/ • Digital Textbooks: Working with Publisher-Provided Online Platforms, a teaching guide by Stacey M. Johnson - https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/digital-textbooks-working-with-publisher-provided-online-platforms/

On the October 21st broadcast at 1PM ET/10AM PT our special guest is Russell Rothman, MD, MPP.    Dr. Russell Rothman is Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Health Policy. He serves as the  Assistant Vice Chancellor for Population Health Research at Vanderbilt and is also the Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research and Chief of the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Section. As Director of the Center for Health Services Research he oversees a Center that engages over 150 faculty involved in health services, quality, behavioral health, disparities, and other research areas. We'll explore the following topics: Why is the issue of Health literacy such a hot topic?Dr. Rothman's work at Vanderbilt on health literacy?What drew him to study this area?We'll discuss a term less frequently heard but equally important, numeracy, what is it and give some examples of some of the ways  low numeracy impacts the individualMedication adherence is a major issue in our current health care system, How does health literacy impact medication compliance Join Fred GoldsteinandGregg Masters for an informative chat.

Wesley Ely, MD, FCCM, discusses new developments in delirium management, focusing on his presentation at the 36th Critical Care Congress. Dr. Ely is a professor in the department of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an outcomes researcher with the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Research. His presentation was summarized in the Congress Review, which offers education credit. Crit Conn 2007;6(3):22