Month: August 2025

August 26, 2025

VUMC IT announces Workday and Tecsys downtimes for September

Michael Topf, MD, wears a model of a new head-mounted augmented reality system that can guide surgeons during operations to excise head and neck cancer.
August 26, 2025

Grant supports development of head-mounted augmented reality system to guide tumor resection 

The technology will allow surgeons to rely less on a fallible mental construction of the resection plane, thereby reducing the risk of human error affecting the procedure. 

By Evan Dorian
August 26, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Meeko and Mae

August 26, 2025

Pediatric Nursing Grand Rounds, ‘Professional Governance as Catalyst for Nursing Excellence,’ is Sept. 17

August 25, 2025

Patricia Townsend Meador Lecture with Harvard’s Rebecca Weintraub Brendel is Oct. 1

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August 25, 2025

Clinicians, patients cheer DAX, the AI ‘ear’ in Vanderbilt Health exam rooms

The program, called DAX Copilot, relieves clinicians from having to enter data into the electronic health record during patient visits and enables them to focus more fully on the patient.

By Bill Snyder
August 25, 2025

VUMC partners with Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville State, and Ascension on Early College programs

These will become the fourth and fifth MNPS zoned high schools with an Early College program embedded in the school in partnership with Nashville State, joining Whites Creek, Glencliff, and Cane Ridge.
August 25, 2025

‘I didn’t know that I’d been living my life in pain’: Patient’s remarkable recovery after crossing paths with a compassionate neurosurgeon

Exhausted from a multiyear journey navigating a debilitating illness, Lainey Mathis received life-changing care from Ryan Lee, MD, whose new cerebrospinal fluid disorders center is already making a massive impact on patients.
By Evan Dorian
August 22, 2025

‘Translating AI into Practice’ symposium set for Oct. 8-9

August 21, 2025

New blood pressure guidelines; alcohol and the brain; fat cells and breast cancer; plus other news stories with VUMC sources.

August 21, 2025

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center seeking input from health care clinicians who treat adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities

August 21, 2025

Active Shooter Simulation Courses available; register in Learning Exchange