Year: 2023

October 6, 2023

Nine Nashville State surgical technology students awarded scholarships from VUMC

By VUMC News and Communications
October 6, 2023

VUMC in the news, Oct. 10, 2023

October 6, 2023

Links for VUMC employee discounts for Titans, Predators and Vanderbilt basketball are here

By VUMC News and Communications
October 6, 2023

Build-out begins on final floors of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt expansion

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt continues to grow to new heights. As part of the ongoing four-floor expansion of Monroe Carell, a temporary crane alongside the pediatric facility’s building signifies a move toward the final phases of the project.

By Christina Echegaray
October 6, 2023

VUMC’s Pride ERG to present “Exploring Nashville’s LGBTQ+ History,” Oct. 18

By VUMC News and Communications
October 5, 2023

Study finds no difference in heart transplant outcomes using organs donated after circulatory death and after brain death

A Vanderbilt study found no difference in one-year survival and other outcomes among heart transplant patients who received their new organs from from donation after circulatory death and donation after brain death.

By Matt Batcheldor
October 5, 2023

Study validates pyrvinium as treatment to prevent stomach cancer

A Vanderbilt study found that a drug that has been used for decades for intestinal pinworms, can be repurposed as a preventative treatment for stomach cancer.
By Tom Wilemon
October 5, 2023

Stenner and Webber lead collaborative team to win AMA Precision Education Innovation Grant

Shane Stenner, MD, MS, and Chase Webber, DO, and a collaborative team of experts at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center were recently named to receive the American Medical Association’s ChangeMedEd Innovation grant. 
By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli
October 5, 2023

Kidney disease gene also has a protective mutation

African Americans have long been known to be at increased risk of kidney disease due to a dangerous genetic mutation that creates a hole in the kidney cells, but Vanderbilt researchers have now discovered a protective genetic mutation that covers the hole to eliminate the risk.
By Craig Boerner
October 5, 2023

Jane Case named associate vice chair for Advanced Practice for the Department of Medicine

Jane Case, DNP, APRN-BC, has been named associate vice chair for Advanced Practice for the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
By Matt Batcheldor
October 5, 2023

Flulapalooza 2023

This year, 10,603 faculty, staff, postdoc scholars and students were vaccinated at VUMC's Flulapalooza event.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 4, 2023

Clifton Meador Lecture with Chanita Hughes-Halbert is Oct. 20

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