Matt Batcheldor
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February 28, 2020
VUMC uses novel transplant technique to revive donor hearts that had stopped beating
In the first such procedures in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has successfully used technology to bring two donor hearts that stopped beating back to life before transplanting them into patients. -
February 27, 2020
Randy Hatch has dedicated his life to teaching and coaching at-risk young people. After his lifesaving liver transplant, they lined the halls to welcome him back.
His beloved Carroll Academy Jaguars and Lady Jaguars honor him with a message on their shirts: "Donate Life." -
February 27, 2020
Study finds certain genetic test not useful in predicting heart disease risk
A Polygenic Risk Score — a genetic assessment that doctors have hoped could predict coronary heart disease (CHD) in patients — has been found not to be a useful predictive biomarker for disease risk. -
February 27, 2020
APRN fellowship program receives ANCC accreditation
VUMC's Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioner Fellowship has been accredited with distinction as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs. -
February 24, 2020
Richard Hosner knew he needed a liver transplant. It turned out he needed a kidney, too. On one amazing day, he received both.
The pair of complex surgeries took 13 hours. When he woke up, he felt like a new person. Since 2011, there have been 38 liver-kidney transplants at VUMC, helping establish Vanderbilt as one of the leading sites in the country for multiple-organ transplants. -
February 20, 2020
Gannon to oversee efforts to expand ECMO program to additional units
Whitney Gannon MSN, MS, RN, APRN, has been named to the new position of director of Quality and Education for the Vanderbilt Extracorporeal Life Support Program (ECLS).