Matt Batcheldor

November 25, 2024

Vanessa Cameron is a nurse educator who has always been passionate about accommodations to help people learn. But a rock-climbing fall left her paraplegic, and she now says: ‘I thought I understood what ableism was, and I was wrong.’

Cameron, who co-leads the VUMC Disability Employee Resource Group, has led a team to develop algorithmic tools intended for anyone with a goal of supporting all participants at educational events.

By Matt Batcheldor

November 22, 2024

Konrad Hoetzenecker named surgical director of the Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program

Hoetzenecker comes to Vanderbilt from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, where he has been professor of Lung Transplantation and director of the Lung Transplant Program.

By Matt Batcheldor

Vanderbilt’s Ashish Shah, MD (in white coat); with Ukrainian physicians, from left, Roman Buriak, MD, PhD; Vadym Mykolaienko, MD; Maksym Konodiuk, MD; Oleg Zhurba, MD, PhD; Yevhen Yarmilko, MD; and Vadym Golub, MD. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

November 21, 2024

Ukrainian team visits VUMC to hone transplant surgery skills

With the help of Vanderbilt and other transplant centers, Ukraine has developed a growing transplant program in the country in the last four years.

By Matt Batcheldor

Heart patient Lisa Kimbrell, right, with her sister, Rebecca Bickerton.

November 14, 2024

Teams help patient survive multiple traumatic injuries

In August 2022 Lisa Kimbrell was involved in a near-fatal wreck. A year later two dogs attacked her and sent her back to the hospital.

By Matt Batcheldor

November 7, 2024

Transplant patient’s indomitable spirit proves inspirational

Bill Jackson received a heart and double lung transplant, an unusual procedure performed only a handful of times each year at VUMC and one that can occur at only the most specialized transplant centers.

By Matt Batcheldor

Attending the American Association for Men in Nursing convention in St. Louis were, from left, Shane Simonini, RN; Anderson Bottomy, MSN, RN; Toppy Hux, RN; Jeremy Crawford, MMHC, RN; Bryan Dejanovich, RN, MBA, MMHC; Wes Mangrum-Smith, RN; and Jason Mott, PhD, RN, president of the American Association for Men in Nursing.

November 6, 2024

VUMC again receives Best Workplace for Men in Nursing Award

Criteria for the award included recruitment materials featuring men in nursing, evidence demonstrating an increase in the number of men in nursing and evidence of male nurse involvement.