Year: 2019

VUMC leaders and clinic representatives cut the ribbon at the new location of the Hillsboro Medical Group. Those participating were, from left, James Powers, MD, Tom Elasy, MD, MPH, Craig Sussman, MD, C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, Robert Miller, MD, Marilyn Dubree, MSN, RN, Paul Barnett, MD, clinic founding partner, Irma Kaplan, wife of clinic founding partner Herman Kaplan, MD, Nancy Brown, MD, and Tom Nantais, MBA.
January 24, 2019

Hillsboro Medical Group opens at Village at Vanderbilt

A ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house was held last week for the new Hillsboro Medical Group location at the Village at Vanderbilt.

By Jill Clendening
January 24, 2019

Study to track teen development in those with, without autism

A new study examining stress and arousal across pubertal development in youth with and without autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is now enrolling participants, thanks to a $2.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).

By Kelsey Herbers
January 24, 2019

Vanderbilt Prize winner Amon to speak at Jan. 31 lecture

Angelika Amon, PhD, recipient of the 2018 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, will deliver her Vanderbilt Prize lecture at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in 208 Light Hall.

By Bill Snyder
January 24, 2019

American Chemical Society honors Lindsley’s research

The year is starting off with a bang for Craig Lindsley, PhD, director of medicinal chemistry in the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

By Bill Snyder
Jennifer Lutgens explores one of the new workstations at the Department of Medicine’s new space in the Oxford House.
January 24, 2019

Department of Medicine debuts new shared space in Oxford House

The fifth floor of the Oxford House has been remodeled into an innovative shared space for several groups in the Department of Medicine to use on an as-needed basis.

By Wayne Wood
January 24, 2019

Children’s Hospital lands awards for health communications

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt took home top honors in multiple categories in the 2018 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, which recognizes the nation’s best in health care digital communications.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 24, 2019

VUMC scientists ‘sprint’ to find anti-Zika antibodies

Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and colleagues in Boston, Seattle and St. Louis are racing to develop — in a mere 90 days — a protective antibody-based treatment that can stop the spread of the Zika virus.
By Bill Snyder
January 24, 2019

Radiologist Taber thrives on teaching, diagnostic challenges

David Taber, MD, has practiced radiology for more than 40 years, with the first half of his career spent in private practice and the second half at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In addition to his clinical practice within the musculoskeletal and emergency radiology section of the Department of Radiology, Taber serves as an assistant director of the diagnostic radiology residency program.
By Leigh MacMillan
January 24, 2019

Pierce’s presence brightens days in Trauma ICU

As he walks the hallways of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Don Pierce’s gold Guest Services blazer is an outward symbol of the heart of gold you’ll find underneath.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 23, 2019

DAISY Awards honor four extraordinary nurses

DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries. This group is Vanderbilt's first.
By Max Ellinger
January 23, 2019

Major grant to bolster research on inflammation-related cancers

Cancer Research UK has awarded a 20-million-pound grant (about $25 million U.S.) to a team of international investigators, including Vanderbilt’s James Goldenring, MD, PhD, to study inflammation-related cancers.
By Tom Wilemon
January 17, 2019

Signals from the “conveyor belt”

Vanderbilt researchers propose that cellular signaling pathways are amplified by a “conveyor belt” mechanism that exchanges active and inactive enzymes.
By Bill Snyder
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