Jennifer McGugin, JD, and Amy D. Hampton, JD, join Dawn R. Crumel, JD, and Kathleen C. Hanbury, JD, in Managing Counsel roles.

Department of Medicine clinicians see patients in 19 counties across Middle Tennessee as well as the surrounding region. There were 86,096 outpatient visits for fiscal year 2024, an increase of more than 25,000 visits over fiscal year 2023.

This year’s winner of the Elliot V. Newman Prize was Kaitlyn Tracy, MD, a surgical resident at VUMC, who shared her work on the potential clinical impact of storing livers for transplant at 10 degrees Celsius.

Walker received a VUMC Credo Award for her dedication to that patient and to quality and safe respiratory care for pediatric patients.

Preoxygenation is the administration of supplemental oxygen prior to the start of a procedure to increase the content of oxygen in the lung and decrease the risk of hypoxemia

“In the OR, kids don’t have anyone except the doctors, techs and nurses taking care of them. They can’t speak for themselves. I realize the privilege and responsibility I have to those kids, and I’ve felt a lot of purpose in my role.”