232:. Later that year, Balser was appointed as the eleventh dean of the VUSM. The following year, he was made vice chancellor for health affairs at Vanderbilt University, in charge of the medical center, while continuing to serve as dean of the medical school. In 2011, Balser was implicated as one of the chief proponents behind a medical record system at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that was involved in "widespread Medicare fraud for more than a decade. The medical center later settled with the federal government for $ 6.5 million.
151:, in 1962. While a middle school student, he sold newspapers in a hospital, going from room to room interacting with patients. His interest in medicine developed after the death of his mother from pancreatic cancer. Balser was dissatisfied with the health care system which he saw as disorganized and frustrating.
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Tan, Hanno L.; Kupershmidt, Sabina; Zhang, Rong; Stepanovic, Svetlana; Roden, Dan M.; Wilde, Arthur A. M.; Anderson, Mark E.; Balser, Jeffrey R. (2002). "A calcium sensor in the sodium channel modulates cardiac excitability".
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