Holly Fletcher

VUMC employees will still be able to get vaccines or boosters at the Occupational Health Clinic at Suite 640 in the Medical Arts Building.
March 24, 2025

VUMC to implement enhanced physical security at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks

Beginning Thursday, March 27 at 9 a.m., new security measures will be in place at One Hundred Oaks.

By Holly Fletcher
March 6, 2025

VIGH welcomes AIC Kijabe Hospital leader

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya, are long-standing collaborators on health and training initiatives.
February 14, 2025

Brain Break: Your local crossword fix

Crossword puzzles have appeared in newspapers for decades, and now VUMC News is presenting the first Nashville/VUMC-themed grid. This featured puzzle is “9 to 5 Across.”

By Holly Fletcher
Various instruments sit out for use during a heart transplant surgery on Jan. 15. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
January 31, 2025

How many surgical instruments are used to set the 2024 heart transplant world record?

A standard heart transplant requires surgical instruments spread across multiple sterile tables — from tiny vascular clamps to hefty retractors to keep the surgical field open.

By Holly Fletcher and Erin O. Smith
This lithographic illustration depicts the Vanderbilt Medical School building in downtown Nashville in 1895. (Historic Images of VUMC, EBL Special Collections)
January 29, 2025

Leadership Assembly: VUMC’s 150 years of care, growth and expansion

Today’s VUMC is closely intertwined with the booming geographic region it calls home, resulting in a relationship that both demands and fuels the institution’s rapid growth.

By Holly Fletcher
November 21, 2024

Health Professional Solutions joins Aegis Ventures’ Digital Consortium

Consortium members will identify key health care challenges and codevelop targeted solutions that improve patient outcomes and health care efficiency. 
October 28, 2024

New research highlights economic and employment challenges for parents of medically complex babies

The study highlights that having a preterm baby often forces parents to consider leaving their job, a decision that typically involves changes to health insurance plans and networks, and resets the annual out-of-pocket costs a worker incurs.
By Holly Fletcher
October 22, 2024

Commodore spirit proves too much for superfan’s blood vessels

While most sports injuries happen on the field, one Vanderbilt football fan managed to score one in his own home the night Vanderbilt beat Alabama.
By Holly Fletcher
October 8, 2024

Vanderbilt Health Rx Solutions introduces service to bridge gap between health systems and pharmaceutical manufacturers

The new consulting service will offer robust capabilities in understanding the provider journey, prescription journey, data capabilities and best practice sharing.
By Holly Fletcher
October 3, 2024

Q&A: Jeffrey Upperman on the need to emphasize the impact of disasters on children to improve responses, care

Jeffrey Upperman, a national leader in pediatric trauma and disaster preparedness, is among the authors of the Pediatric Disaster Science Series from the National Academy of Medicine that published in late September as scenes of Hurricane Helene’s devastation emerged across the Southeast, underscoring the need to formalize response, research and care efforts.
By Holly Fletcher
September 25, 2024

Vanderbilt’s Douglas Terry named Senior Director of Research for the National Football League

The role will concentrate on several initiatives meant to enhance the health and safety of NFL players and is an extension of Terry’s expertise and work on sport-related concussion and cumulative head impacts.
By Holly Fletcher
September 23, 2024

New study reveals common belief of CTE, link to mental health among former professional NFL players

“Understanding the proportion of former players who think they have CTE — and identifying the common symptoms in those who believe they have CTE — is an important step for helping these individuals receive medical and mental health treatment,” said Douglas Terry, PhD, assistant professor and clinical neuropsychologist in the Department of Neurological Surgery and co-director of the Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center.
By Holly Fletcher
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