Year: 2019

School of Nursing MSN graduate Mary Ann Enriquez, left, DNP graduate Marci Zsamboky and classmates gather for the main ceremony.
May 16, 2019

Nursing graduates embrace quest for health care excellence

Dean Linda Norman, DSN, told the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing’s 2019 graduating class that she is optimistic about the future of health care because of them.

By Nancy Wise
C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, and honorary co-chair Jennifer Najjar, MD, presented trophies to the winner of The Margaret Currey Henley Stakes race at the 78th Iroquois Steeplechase on Saturday, May 11. Since designating Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as its official charity in 1981, the Steeplechase has raised more than $10 million for the hospital. Thousands of spectators gathered this year for the event, which has become Nashville’s rite of spring.
May 16, 2019

Steeplechase 2019

Thousands of spectators gathered this year for the Iroquois Steeplechase, which has become Nashville’s rite of spring.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 16, 2019

Brain network activity can improve in epilepsy patients after surgery

Successful epilepsy surgery can improve brain connectivity like patterns seen in people without epilepsy, according to a new study.

By Holly Fletcher
May 15, 2019

Protecting the skin from damaging sun rays is as easy as “slip, slop, slap, slide and shade”

By Jessica Pasley
May 15, 2019

Adult hospital receives top safety grade from Leapfrog group

Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital was once again named among the safest hospitals in the nation after receiving a spring safety grade of “A” from the Leapfrog group.

By Doug Campbell
The transplant collaborative pharmacy team includes, from left, Anthony Langone, MD, Keren Johnson, PharmD, CSP, and Rachel Chelewski, PharmD, CSP.
May 15, 2019

Collaborative pharmacy approach eases physician workload

Thanks to a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement between the Transplant Pharmacy and Renal Transplant Clinic, physicians are spending less time authorizing prescriptions and more time with patients.

By Kelsey Herbers
May 15, 2019

Workshop explores integrating behavioral care across institution

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, executive leaders, community partners and Patient and Family Advisory Council members gathered last week for a 1.5-day workshop focused on integrating behavioral health care across the institution.
By Kelsey Herbers
May 9, 2019

Line placement better with ultrasound

Using ultrasound to place arterial lines reduces the need for surgical access and improves arterial line location, Vanderbilt researchers have found.
By Paul Govern
May 9, 2019

Frog fungus fights back

Louise Rollins-Smith and colleagues are exploring how a deadly fungus counters the amphibian immune response and contributes to declining worldwide amphibian populations.
By Leigh MacMillan
May 9, 2019

Blueprint for rebuilding the heart

Young-Jae Nam and colleagues are discovering how to express specific factors in connective tissue cells to turn them into heart muscle cells.
By Anivarya Kumar
May 9, 2019

The dynamic basement

Vanderbilt scientists led by Andrea Page-McCaw have discovered a new way to analyze repair of basement membranes — important structural and functional components of tissues.
By Sanjay Mishra
May 9, 2019

Browser gives glimpse into rapidly growing “All of Us” databank

The national “All of Us” Research Program, which aims to accelerate the prevention and treatment of illness by recruiting a million or more research participants, provided a glimpse this week into its rapidly growing databank with the beta launch of its publicly accessible Data Browser application.
By Bill Snyder
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