Jill Clendening

February 2, 2024

Study links small pancreas size to faster progression to stage 3 Type 1 diabetes

The study findings, published in the journal Diabetes Care, suggest that pancreas imaging can have a benefit in tracking disease development and recruitment for preventive and therapeutic trials.

By Jill Clendening
February 2, 2024

Self check-in, centralized welcome desks prove beneficial to both staff and patients

Vanderbilt Health adult ambulatory clinics began providing self check-in for appointments in late summer 2023, and the process has proven beneficial to both patients and staff.  

By Jill Clendening
February 2, 2024

Ambulatory Barcode Medication Administration Implementation team effort improves safety for all

“This effort is the result of enormous teamwork and results in added safety for medication administration for all patients from newborn to geriatric. It’s a real win for all the patients we serve.”

By Jill Clendening
January 25, 2024

New SMART rotation of military personnel begins in February

The next Strategic Medical Asset Readiness Training (SMART) rotation of members ofthe United States military, is coming to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to work in clinical areas of the adult hospital Feb. 6-20.

By Jill Clendening
January 23, 2024

VUMC establishes Realizing Accelerated Progress, Investigation, Implementation, and Dissemination in Learning Health Systems (RAPID-LHS) Center

The new center, supported by a $5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute will focus on training scientists and supporting research to minimize gaps between the generation of clinical evidence, implementation of proven interventions and development of informed public health policy.

By Jill Clendening
January 4, 2024

Study shows liraglutide results in increased insulin sensitivity independent of weight loss

By Jill Clendening
December 15, 2023

Owen Canavan was badly injured six years ago. He uses experience to encourage others recovering from traumatic injuries.

In 2017, Canavan was working out at a fitness center when a car came crashing into the building and pinned him against a wall. In the span of a week, he underwent eight surgeries.
By Jill Clendening
December 8, 2023

Suicide ideation response plan implemented to assist at-risk adults

Vanderbilt Health’s Adult Ambulatory clinics have a new Suicide Ideation Response Plan that will provide clinicians and staff with additional resources to provide appropriate care for patients who are identified as thinking about or planning suicide.
By Jill Clendening
December 4, 2023

Study links gene network and pancreatic beta cell defects to Type 2 diabetes

A comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to Type 2 diabetes.
By Leigh MacMillan and Jill Clendening
November 27, 2023

Generations of orthopedic patients and practitioners hold a special place for Sandy Shelton

She has been "Happy to be here" for more than 40 years, and, as she nears retirement, is hailed as a legend in Orthopaedics.
By Jill Clendening
November 17, 2023

Keith Obstein receives inaugural Brock Family Center Innovator of the Year Award

Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, has received the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation in recognition of his achievements in developing and commercializing a magnetic, flexible colonoscopy system with the potential to provide a safer alternative to standard colonoscopy.
By Jill Clendening
November 6, 2023

Powers receives prestigious Veterans Affairs Middleton Award

Alvin C. Powers, MD, Joe C. Davis Professor of Biologic Science and professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, has received the 2023 William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service.
By Jill Clendening