Emily Stembridge

May 16, 2022

Lou Kaelin never asks her team to do a job she has not done herself.

“Her dedication and service to VUMC, her staff and her patients cannot be measured. I feel honored to have worked with her.”

By Emily Stembridge
May 12, 2022

Fissell receives Medal of Excellence from the American Association of Kidney Patients

Vanderbilt’s William Fissell, MD, recently received the 2022 Medal of Excellence Award in the physician category from the American Association of Kidney Patients.

By Emily Stembridge
May 10, 2022

Autism and sleep problems

Vanderbilt researchers developed a framework for using de-identified medical records to characterize sleep in people on the autism spectrum — a framework that should also be useful for studying other neurodevelopmental disorders.

By Emily Stembridge
April 28, 2022

Nyman named Center for Bone Biology director

Jeffry Nyman, PhD, professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and research associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named director of the Vanderbilt Center for Bone Biology.

By Emily Stembridge
April 28, 2022

ASD study explores link between repetitive motion, depression

A Vanderbilt found that research into depression risk and resilience factors for adults with ASD is also critical to guide proper screening and intervention efforts.

By Emily Stembridge
April 28, 2022

Shaan Patel joins VWCH as its first full-time hand surgeon

Shaan Patel, MD, has joined Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital as an assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and is the hospital’s the only full-time hand surgeon dedicated to VWCH.

By Emily Stembridge
April 28, 2022

Allen named Imaging Clinical Service Center medical director

Laveil Allen, MD, has been named executive medical director of the Imaging Clinical Service Center, effective May 1.
By Emily Stembridge
April 21, 2022

Children with autism report greater gender diversity: study

Vanderbilt researchers found that children with autism report higher rates of gender diversity — the way in which an individual experiences gender distinct from social norms for their gender assigned at birth — than their typically developing peers.
By Emily Stembridge
April 21, 2022

Taylor, Newhouse, Petrie honored by geriatric psychiatry association

Vanderbilt's Warren Taylor, MD, MHSc, Paul Newhouse, MD, and William Petrie, MD, were recently honored at the 2022 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) Awards.
By Emily Stembridge
April 15, 2022

Music therapy comes to Palliative Care Unit

“Music opens many new perspectives and pathways that patients otherwise would not have."
By Emily Stembridge
April 13, 2022

Arroyo, Terker receive new awards from ASCI

Juan Pablo Arroyo, MD, PhD, instructor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Andrew Terker, MD, PhD, research fellow in Nephrology, each received an inaugural 2022 Emerging Generation Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
By Emily Stembridge
April 13, 2022

Hearing and Speech Sciences celebrates 70 years of service

The Vanderbilt Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is celebrating 70 years of serving people with hearing, speech, language and related disorders.
By Emily Stembridge