Paul Govern

June 20, 2024

Renowned Emergency Medicine educator, clinician Keith Wrenn mourned

Dr. Wrenn’s clinical skill inspired awe. He taught by example, and his patience, compassion and focus on patient-centered care leaves an indelible impression on trainees and colleagues.

By Paul Govern
June 18, 2024

Study tallies reports of unprofessional behavior among physicians

Reports from 193 hospitals were analyzed. It turns out that surgeons draw the most complaints.

By Paul Govern
Fei Ye, PhD, MSPH
June 6, 2024

Fei Ye selected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association

Fei Ye is the first woman among VUMC’s Biostatistics faculty to be selected as an ASA fellow. She’ll be among 47 new ASA fellows inducted in August at the Joint Statistical Meetings.

By Paul Govern
May 30, 2024

Videoconference series supports early detection, care of dementia

For health care professionals from across the region, starting June 27, the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheimer’s Center will offer a series of free videoconferences for discussion of cases and learning from peers.

By Paul Govern
May 30, 2024

NIH awards $4.2 million for AI patient assessment

Tkaczyk and collaborators will assemble a database of more than 11,000 photographs and associated clinical information from diverse patient populations at five centers: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Mayo Clinic, NIH, University of Pennsylvania and VUMC.

By Paul Govern
May 16, 2024

Clinician accountability program from VUMC associated with large savings

A program run by Vanderbilt University Medical Center that provides peer feedback to high-risk clinicians was associated with a significant decrease in malpractice claims costs at a large orthopaedic surgery practice, according to a recent study.

By Paul Govern
May 15, 2024

Symposium highlights implementation research in learning health systems

On May 14, two groups at Vanderbilt University Medical Center — the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research and the Center for Learning Healthcare — together hosted the Vanderbilt Symposium on Implementation Research in the Learning Health System.
By Paul Govern
May 15, 2024

New online repository offers physicians quick guidance on care of rare disease patients

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has collaborated with Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., to develop the Rare Disease Clinical Activity Protocol Program, or RareCAP, a growing online repository of clinical protocols designed to offer quick, practical guidance on the care of patients with rare diseases.
By Paul Govern
May 3, 2024

Faculty member Daniel Fabbri describes entrepreneurial journey

The talk provided insights into the challenges and rewards of commercializing academic research.
By Paul Govern
May 2, 2024

The big sort 

A new interactive tool presents information on noncoding RNA in extracellular vesicles — agents of cell-cell communication that may have a future in medical diagnosis and therapeutics.
By Paul Govern
April 26, 2024

VUH adopts enhanced recovery for spine surgery

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is launching an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway for the nearly 1,000 adult patients who undergo elective spine surgery each year at Vanderbilt University Hospital and Belle Meade Surgery Center.
By Paul Govern
April 25, 2024

AI shows promise for clinical phenotyping

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have demonstrated the potential for large language models like ChatGPT to help generate electronic health record phenotyping algorithms, a critical but time-consuming task in observational health research.
By Paul Govern
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