Leigh MacMillan Archive
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October 11, 2024
Scrub and Shoe Sale set for Oct. 16-17
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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. -
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. -
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. -
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.”