Year: 2024

May 29, 2024

SHARE Center offers customizable presentations and workshops for VUMC departments

VUMC’s Sexual Harassment Awareness, Response, and Education (SHARE) Center offers workshops for VUMC teams or departments on preventing and responding to workplace violence – including sexual harassment by patients, contractors, employees and visitors.

May 29, 2024

Researchers seek children 18 months to 6 years old for hearing study

Kristin O’Grady, PhD, in the 3T MRI suite at Vanderbilt University Hospital. (photo by Susan Urmy)

May 29, 2024

Kristin O’Grady receives $2.4 million for multiple sclerosis imaging studies

The awards will support O’Grady’s application of structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging to better understand symptoms and track MS progression in the lower spinal cord.

By Bill Snyder

Neil Jess, BSN, RN, CNOR, and Pearl-Cohn High School student Aries Beck.

May 29, 2024

Nurses mentor Pearl-Cohn High School students considering health care professions

The mentorship program — a partnership between VUMC Nursing and Metro Nashville Public Schools — has enabled staff nurses to empower students eyeing nursing and health care professions. Aries Beck wants to be a neurologist.

By Matt Batcheldor

Mama Lere Hearing School students lead the Pledge of Allegiance.(photo by Erin O. Smith)

May 29, 2024

Mama Lere Hearing School graduation

The Mama Lere Hearing School teaches children, mostly with hearing loss, to listen, read, sing and talk.

From left are LifeFlight’s Lyle Holmes, Chad Hollingsworth, RN, and Mark Dittrich.

May 29, 2024

LifeFlight, Project ADAM lauded by Children’s Emergency Alliance

LifeFlight 8, based in Humboldt, Tennessee, was recognized with the Region 7 Award for its work in responding to a mass casualty in Carroll County in 2023. It is the second time this specific unit has been recognized for its work.