Year: 2024

March 15, 2024

Osher Center offers 10% discount on classes

March 15, 2024

VUMC Pets of the Day: Ted and Luna

March 15, 2024

VUMC Pets of the Day: Effie and Augustus

March 15, 2024

Emerging Infections Program extends, expands disease surveillance research with new grant from the CDC

The Tennessee Emerging Infections Program has been awarded a new five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue infectious disease surveillance research that has been conducted since 1999, and has expanded to include COVID, Mpox and HPV surveillance into oropharyngeal cancers.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 14, 2024

Institute of Chemical Biology seminar with GlaxoSmithKline’s Neil Pearson is March 27

March 14, 2024

Institute of Chemical Biology seminar with Andrei Osterman is March 20

March 14, 2024

Immune cell profiles may guide flu vaccine timing in pediatric stem cell transplant patients

A new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has identified key immune cell populations that predict how well pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients will respond to the influenza vaccine.
By Paul Govern
March 14, 2024

Two eStar changes: Mobile Heartbeat and Apple Watch update and conditional discharge order overview

March 14, 2024

More young people getting cancer; caring for the pelvic floor; microplastics and strokes; and other topics in the news quoting Vanderbilt sources

March 14, 2024

Pain medication. Cosmetics. Cleaning supplies. Tennessee Poison Center’s message: lock them away.

TPC’s help hotline —1-800-222-1222 — is staffed by nurses, pharmacists, physicians and board-certified medical toxicologists who are specially trained to assist callers.
By Jessica Pasley
March 14, 2024

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital President Mary Pawlikowski to retire

Mary Pawlikowski, MA, MEd, PsyDABD, president of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and Vanderbilt Behavioral Health, will retire at the end of the fiscal year. A search will begin for the hospital’s new executive director.
By John Howser
March 13, 2024

Robert C. Bone, VUSM graduate and founder of Lebanon hospital, dies at 87

By Wayne Wood