Doug Campbell

VUMC’s e-prescription quality efforts lauded

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been named to receive a White Coat of Quality Award from Surescripts that recognizes the institution’s e-prescription quality efforts.

VUMC named among top 100 U.S. hospitals

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has once again been named among the “100 Great Hospitals in America” by Becker’s Hospital Review.

Conference explores benefits of health workforce diversity

As an industry, health care is uniquely positioned to promote the need for, and benefits of, a more diverse and encompassing workforce.

Yale’s Lifton set to deliver next Flexner Discovery Lecture

Yale University’s Richard Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., winner of a $3 million, 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for discovering genes and biochemical mechanisms that cause hypertension, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture March 6.

By Doug Campbell

February 26, 2014

New clinic seeks clues to rare childhood genetic disorder

A new specialty clinic at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is dedicated to investigating and treating a rare childhood disorder that causes partial — and sometimes nearly total — paralysis for unpredictable lengths of time.

By Doug Campbell

January 16, 2014

Lung disease foundation lauds investigators

Two Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators recently received awards from the ATS Foundation and its partners to support their lung disease-related research efforts.