Year: 2012

August 23, 2012

State of Medical Center Address Set for Sept. 18

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

Collins to direct VUSN’s Nurse-Midwifery program

Michelle Collins, Ph.D., CNM, has been named program director for the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing Nurse-Midwifery program.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

Belmont, VU create Physical Therapy residency

Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson’s Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute (PBPRI) in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is joining with the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont University to initiate a Neurological Physical Therapy Clinical Residency.

By Craig Boerner
August 23, 2012

Gregory joins CDC brain injury panel

Andrew Gregory, M.D., associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, will play a key role in improving the clinical care of youth with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI).

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

School of Medicine student lands AMA Foundation award

Nicholas Giacalone, a fourth-year Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student, has received a Physicians of Tomorrow award from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

VEI clinic seeks to meet low-vision needs of area children

By Jessica Pasley
August 23, 2012

Peterman takes post in Buffalo

Debianne Peterman, Ph.D., MSN, director of Nursing Education and Professional Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been appointed vice president and chief nursing officer of Women’s & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo — the hospital where she was born.
By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

Photo: Sharing knowledge

By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

New VUSN students eager to expand educational horizons

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is welcoming its largest class ever — 458 students who are pursuing either a master’s in the science of nursing, Doctor of Nurse Practice or Ph.D. in Nursing Science degree.
By VUMC News and Communications
August 23, 2012

VU, Lipscomb partner on dual degree program

A new cooperative program between Vanderbilt University and Lipscomb University’s College of Pharmacy is focusing on the next generation of pharmaceutical researchers. By offering a pathway for students to earn both Pharm.D. and Ph.D. degrees, the program aims to boost the number of pharmacy-trained research scientists.
By Leigh MacMillan
August 23, 2012

Multiple procedures, devices help heart patient pull through

After Stacey Browning, R.N., a Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit charge nurse, got a report on a heart attack patient who was being transported to her unit from an outside hospital, her immediate thought was, “They are sending us a patient we are not going to be able to recover.”
By Kathy Whitney
August 23, 2012

Events honor early patients of novel Parkinson’s study

Pioneers of Parkinson’s disease research are gathering at Vanderbilt University Medical Center today to celebrate the end of a study that was an important first step in the quest to find a way to slow the progression of the degenerative movement disorder.
By VUMC News and Communications
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