Year: 2023

September 22, 2023

Beware of the latest phishing attack tactic: QR codes

By VUMC News and Communications
September 21, 2023

Two miracles, four years apart

Kelly Harden’s life was saved by a lung transplant. Exactly four years later, she was saved again with a kidney transplant.

By Matt Batcheldor
September 21, 2023

Countdown under way to Sept. 27 Flulapalooza

By VUMC News and Communications
During his address, Steven Webber, MBChB, MRCP, talked about the past fiscal year and the journey ahead. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
September 21, 2023

State of the Department of Pediatrics address highlights growth, achievements

During his State of the Department of Pediatrics address, Steven Webber, MBChB, MRCP, celebrated the department’s people, highlighted the achievements of the past fiscal year and provided insights into the journey ahead.

By Christina Echegaray
Martin Douglass, PhD, is studying how Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, inflammation of the colon, responds to host-mediated immune responses.
September 21, 2023

VUMC postdoctoral researcher selected as HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

Vanderbilt postdoctoral researcher Martin Douglass, PhD, has been named a 2023 Hanna Gray Fellow by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

By Anthony Czelusniak
This year’s REDCapCon drew of attendees from 19 countries, six continents, and 42 U.S. states and territories.
September 21, 2023

World’s research data administrators descend on Seattle for REDCapCon 2023

Institutional research data administrators from around world got their REDCap on at REDCapCon 2023, held Sept. 10-13 in Seattle.

By Paul Govern
September 20, 2023

Surgeons to lead multisite study of procedure to limit blood loss by partially blocking aorta

Vanderbilt care surgeons are leading a two-year, multicenter observational study of a minimally invasive technique to control life-threatening blood loss by inserting a balloon inside the aorta to restrict blood flow below the heart.
By Jill Clendening
September 20, 2023

VUMC study reveals critical first steps to cancer

A new study by Vanderbilt researchers provides a remarkably detailed view of the earliest events leading to the development of cancer, and of potential new ways to prevent it.
By Bill Snyder
September 19, 2023

Flavia Atkins brings caring and leadership to the patients she guides as a health care navigator

She takes pride not only in guiding patients on their health care journeys but also in serving as a resource who is always available to her fellow navigators
By Leigh MacMillan
September 19, 2023

$51 million NIH grant brings ELVIS to VUMC

Vanderbilt University Medical Center scientists are launching a research platform called ELVIS that is devoted to molecular underpinnings of early-childhood determinants of health.
By Paul Govern
September 19, 2023

Beauchamp honored at symposium highlighting basic research by surgeon scientists

The profound impact of R. Daniel Beauchamp, MD, former chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was deeply evident at a recent symposium highlighting basic research conducted by numerous surgeons and physician-scientists, all of whom were closely associated with the noted physician-scientist.
By Jill Clendening
September 19, 2023

Edwards, Gastineau, Brady honored by the Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

The Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has awarded top honors to three physicians in the Vanderbilt Department of Pediatrics.
By Christina Echegaray
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