Year: 2012 Archive — Page 24 of 50

A group of performers in matching white shirts sing and play guitars during an indoor pep rally, with seated and standing spectators watching in the background.
September 13, 2012

New song, video set to help pump up Heart Walk awareness

At the inaugural Heart Walk Pep Rally last week, the Vanderbilt Heart Sounds introduced this year’s song, an original composition titled “Walk the Walk,” written by Cardiac Surgery administrative assistant Kurt Eger and cardiologist Mark Glazer, M.D.

September 13, 2012

Cells with LIP eat their neighbors

A transcription factor called LIP is capable of causing one cell to consume another.

A white football helmet with a faceguard lies on grass beside a person wearing dark protective gear.
September 12, 2012

Event set to tackle youth sports safety

Doctors and safety experts from the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will host a free sports safety clinic on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mathew School in Franklin, Tenn.

Brent Lemonds (Vanderbilt University)
September 12, 2012

Medical Center mourns loss of Lemonds

Brent Lemonds, M.S., R.N., EMT-P, administrator for Service Improvement at Vanderbilt University Hospital, died Sunday from a pulmonary embolism while recovering at his home from a recent orthopaedic surgery. He was 50.

Green banner with the words “Vanderbilt,” “G&G,” and “Geriatrics & Gerontology.”
September 11, 2012

Geriatrics and Gerontology Interest Group presents ‘Transitions of Care’

Portrait of R. Alta Charo wearing a black floral-patterned blouse.
September 11, 2012

‘Duties of Care, Rights of Conscience’ subject of medical lecture