Year: 2024

April 9, 2024

eStar update: Discontinuation of expired persistent medication orders

April 9, 2024

Starbucks in The Vanderbilt Clinic open on Saturdays starting April 20

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April 9, 2024

Heart disease, depression linked by inflammation: study

Coronary artery disease and major depression may be genetically linked via inflammatory pathways to an increased risk for cardiomyopathy, a degenerative heart muscle disease, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital have found.

By Bill Snyder
April 9, 2024

Health Coaching Program accepting applications for fall cohort; online information session is May 17

April 8, 2024

Biophotonics Center Seminar Series presents “Digital Assessment of Poxvirus Infection in the Rainforest,” April 16

April 8, 2024

VUMC Pets of the Day: Beasley and Kingpin

April 8, 2024

New equipment to enhance security at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Beginning April 18, all Monroe Carell employees, patients, families, learners, and visitors will pass through the detection screening technology at all three hospital entrances.
By Christina Echegaray
April 8, 2024

Chris Williams named VICC director for Research Education

Chris Williams, MD, PhD, associate dean for Physician-Scientist Education and Training at Vanderbilt University, has been named to lead Research Education at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
By Tom Wilemon
April 8, 2024

Lung transplant patient, family glad they came to a place where ‘every single person cared’

Mike Boston was turned down by eight hospitals for a double lung transplant, which would be his second, because none believed he would survive the surgery. Finally, doctors at one medical center — VUMC — thought he might.
By Matt Batcheldor
April 8, 2024

Karen Winkfield named VICC director for Community Outreach and Engagement

Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, has been named associate director for Community Outreach and Engagement at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
By Tom Wilemon
April 5, 2024

Pietenpol to receive ASCO’s highest honor

Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, will be recognized at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) with one of its highest honors.
By Tom Wilemon
April 5, 2024

VandyWorks migration, renaming and downtime begins on April 12