Matt Batcheldor
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September 10, 2020
Technique helped treat patient’s rare pulmonary disorder
Sourav Panja, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, was working in his lab one evening last year when he began coughing up blood. Even breathing was becoming difficult. -
September 9, 2020
VUMC Nursing’s ‘Boot Camp’ hones critical care skills
About 250 nurse practitioners and physician assistants nationwide gathered over Zoom from Sept. 2-4 for the ninth annual ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp, the first in its history to be entirely virtual, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
September 8, 2020
The police officer needed a kidney transplant. The donor turned out to be very familiar to him — he had arrested her numerous times.
He had been a cop for four decades. She had been featured on "Alabama's Most Wanted." -
September 2, 2020
Greater Nashville Heart Walk to go virtual on Sept. 12
Instead of drawing thousands of walkers to the Vanderbilt campus, the 2020 American Heart Association (AHA) Greater Nashville Heart Walk will take place virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
August 26, 2020
Kidney transplant patient returns home to joyous reverse parade
Lee Foster's friends and neighbors smiled, waved, honked and enjoyed cake pops -
August 26, 2020
Four heart transplants performed in whirlwind 48 hours
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center’s cardiac surgeons transplanted four hearts in one 48-hour stretch in August, thanks to VUMC’s perfusion and organ recovery teams traveling more than 4,000 miles across the country to obtain the donor organs.