Year: 2015

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January 22, 2015

New signaling pathway provides clues to obesity

A Vanderbilt University-led research team has discovered a molecular “rheostat” in the brain’s appetite control center that may provide new insights into obesity, which is at epidemic levels in this country.

By Bill Snyder
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January 22, 2015

New data mining method reveals cancer-driving genes

Prospecting for genes that might be implicated in cancer, a Vanderbilt University Medical Center research team has struck pay dirt.

By Paul Govern
January 22, 2015

Pediatric Orthopaedics icon Green’s contributions honored

Neil Green, M.D., former director and chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, has retired after 38 years of service to Vanderbilt.

By Christina Echegaray
January 22, 2015

New tool to enhance VUMC employee evaluation process

This year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is using a new technology and format for mid-year and annual performance evaluations.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 22, 2015

VUMC research cores speed pace of discovery

Progress against America’s most intractable health challenges, among them heart disease, cancer and diabetes, requires the best minds, the latest tools and the easy collaboration demanded by 21st century science.

By Bill Snyder
January 22, 2015

Vanderbilt clinical workstations getting major upgrade

Clinical workstations throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center will undergo an expansive upgrade early this year. Vanderbilt IT is entering into an operating lease with Dell Inc. to replace a significant number of clinical workstations located throughout VUMC’s hospitals and clinics.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2015

Findings do not support chlorhexidine bathing in ICUs

Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have found that bathing critically ill patients with disposable chlorhexidine cloths did not decrease the incidence of health care-associated infections when compared to less expensive nonantimicrobial cloths, according to a study appearing online in JAMA this week.
By Kathy Whitney
January 20, 2015

Vanderbilt study finds use of methadone to treat pain carries increased risk of death

Outside the hospital, use of methadone to treat pain carries a 46 percent increased risk of death when compared to the equally effective but more costly alternative, morphine SR (sustained release).
By Paul Govern
January 15, 2015

VUSM among top 10 in NIH grant support

According to annual figures available through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) continues to be ranked among the top 10 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the nation’s medical research agency.
By John Howser
January 15, 2015

VUMC investigators honored by ASPET

Vanderbilt's Heidi Hamm, Ph.D., and L. Jackson Roberts II, M.D., have been lauded by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET).
By Bill Snyder
January 15, 2015

Awards recognize crucial efforts of research staff

John Allison, Ph.D., Linda Horton and Elizabeth Roof are the recipients of the 2014 Research Staff Awards at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Leigh MacMillan
January 15, 2015

Jones to lead VUSN clinical, community partnership efforts

Pam Jones, DNP, MSN, R.N., has transitioned from chief nursing officer for Vanderbilt University Hospital to her new role as senior associate dean for Clinical and Community Partnerships at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN).
By VUMC News and Communications