The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is celebrating its 60th anniversary of its first kidney transplant, performed on Oct. 3, 1962. Since then, VUMC has performed more than 7,000 kidney transplants, of which Walker was one of the earlier cases.

The Vanderbilt Health Coaching Program allows health care professional to take additional training in the science of supporting patients to change behavior.

DAISY Awards are given to great nurses all over the United States and in many other countries. Here are VUMC's latest winners.

Vanderbilt's Suzanne Brown Sacks, MD, is both a transplant cardiologist and an accomplished singer/songwriter.

Her twin passions for music and for medicine brought her to Nashville and to VUMC

Mervyn Joseph, who searched the world over for the best place to be considered for lung transplant, is thankful he found Vanderbilt University Medical Center.