Leigh MacMillan

October 18, 2024

Vanderbilt Eye Institute Optical Center Trunk Show is Oct. 25

October 18, 2024

All of Us tour stops at VUMC Oct. 22-25

The All of Us Research Program brings the future of health to VUMC and Nashville. 
Dominique Herrington, MS, left, and speech-language pathology graduate student AnnaMary Richmond, right, assist Aphasia Group member Alex Pearson in preparing for the day’s large-group discussions.
October 18, 2024

Faculty facilitators sought for VUSM small groups; application deadline is Dec. 2

October 11, 2024

Levi Watkins Jr., MD Lecture set for Oct. 29

October 11, 2024

Scrub and Shoe Sale set for Oct. 16-17

October 7, 2024

Kimberlyn Ellis selected as 2024 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

Ellis is a computational geneticist with a long-term goal of bridging genomics, bioethics and health policy to promote equitable precision medicine for minority populations.

By Leigh MacMillan
October 2, 2024

VUMC awarded PCORI funding to improve antibiotic prescribing for childhood respiratory infections

The pediatric outpatient antibiotic stewardship project is the first implementation project funded at VUMC as part of the PCORI Health Systems Implementation Initiative, which aims to reduce the estimated 17-year gap between evidence publication and clinical application.
By Leigh MacMillan
September 27, 2024

Distant relatedness in biobanks harnessed to identify undiagnosed genetic disease

VUMC researchers have developed a genetic method that clusters distantly related people to find rare variants that were present in a common ancestor.
By Leigh MacMillan
September 26, 2024

Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital awarded four stars by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  

CMS assigns star ratings to U.S. hospitals each year based on 46 quality measures. The more stars a hospital receives, the better its performance is, based on the metrics CMS assesses.
September 23, 2024

Nobel laureate James Rothman to present on synaptic neurotransmission

Rothman, the Sterling Professor of Cell Biology at Yale University, shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.” 
By Leigh MacMillan
September 20, 2024

Melinda Aldrich elected to genetics society board of directors

Aldrich uses population-based cohorts and biobanks to investigate lung cancer; her research informed guidelines for lung cancer screening.
By Leigh MacMillan
September 20, 2024

Fever drives enhanced activity, mitochondrial damage in immune cells

The mechanistic understanding of how cells respond to heat could explain how chronic inflammation contributes to the development of cancer.
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