The course provides training for military medical personnel working in deployed environments, military treatment facilities, and Level 1 trauma treatment facilities.

An interim plan has been announced to fill the roles held by Alvin C. Powers, MD, in Vanderbilt’s Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Mr. Wills was noted for his substantial civic contributions to Nashville and his efforts to record and preserve the history of the city that five generations of the Wills family have called home.

Trauma patients come to VUH from a region covering 80,000 square miles, and approximately 9,400 acute trauma patients are treated at the hospital annually.

She will be responsible for developing and expanding VUMC’s international institutional initiatives, as well as developing opportunities for VUMC and VUSM learners to engage in global health education.

Drucker and his team study the molecular biology and physiology of the GLP-1 and GLP-2 molecules that regulate glucose metabolism, insulin secretion and energy balance.