VUMC News and Communications

Stanford University School of Medicine’s Lloyd Minor, MD, center, spoke about health care in the era of precision medicine during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. Here, he poses with VUMC’s David Haynes, MD, left, and Ron Eavey, MD.
February 28, 2019

Precision health talk

Stanford University School of Medicine’s Lloyd Minor, MD, center, spoke about health care in the era of precision medicine during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 25, 2019

Eligible physicians can now vote in U.S. News “Best Hospitals” survey

Annual voting is now open for U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” rankings for adult and children’s hospitals. Online voting for eligible physicians to complete their survey takes place on Doximity (www.doximity.com). The surveys will remain open throughout the month of March.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 22, 2019

Outdated VUMC logos to be removed by 2020

With the help of more than 100 submissions from colleagues across Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Strategic Marketing team has concluded its campaign in search of outdated VUMC logos, with a goal to have them removed by 2020.

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Louise Rollins-Smith, PhD, right, Laura Reinert, MS, and colleagues are studying how amphibian populations are impacted by climate change.
February 21, 2019

Research shows frogs can adapt to traffic noise

Frogs don’t like living near noisy highways any better than people do, but research from Vanderbilt suggests that frogs, like hardened city-dwellers, can learn to adapt to the constant din of rumbling trucks, rolling tires and honking horns.

By Nora Foegeding
February 14, 2019

The yin and yang of cell signaling

Larry Marnett and colleagues have explored the role of two enzymes in metabolizing molecules associated with cell proliferation, inflammatory processes and neurological diseases.

By Sanjay Mishra
Past and present members of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, guests and patients attended a celebration of VUMC’s 500th lung transplant at the Student Life Center Feb. 5. Shown here are (back row, from left) Matthew Bacchetta, MD, MBA, MA; Ivan Robbins, MD; Eric Grogan, MD, MPH; and Eric Lambright, MD; (front row, from left) James Loyd, MD; Pam Smith; Erin Gillaspie, MD, MPH; Andy Bolden and Ciara Shaver, MD, PhD. Bolden is the recipient of the 500th lung transplant at Vanderbilt, and Smith, who was transplanted at Vanderbilt in 1990, is the longest-surviving single-lung transplant patient in the United States. Vanderbilt performed its first combined heart/lung transplant in 1987 and its first single-lung transplant in 1990.
February 14, 2019

Celebrating a transplant milestone

Past and present members of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, guests and patients attended a celebration of VUMC’s 500th lung transplant at the Student Life Center Feb. 5.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 6, 2019

McCoy named chief flight nurse at Humboldt base

Rita McCoy, RN, EMT, a veteran flight nurse from West Tennessee, has been named base manager and chief flight nurse for Vanderbilt LifeFlight’s Gibson County base in Humboldt, Tennessee.
By Jerry Jones
January 28, 2019

School of Nursing celebrates grand opening of building expansion

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing opened a new $23.6 million building expansion containing a state-of-the-art simulation lab, technologically advanced classrooms and student services offices with a grand opening and ribbon cutting event on Jan. 22.
By Nancy Wise
January 24, 2019

Children’s Hospital lands awards for health communications

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt took home top honors in multiple categories in the 2018 eHealthcare Leadership Awards, which recognizes the nation’s best in health care digital communications.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 24, 2019

Pierce’s presence brightens days in Trauma ICU

As he walks the hallways of the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Don Pierce’s gold Guest Services blazer is an outward symbol of the heart of gold you’ll find underneath.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 17, 2019

Spalluto, Lewis to lead VA lung screening initiative

Lucy Spalluto, MD, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, and Jennifer Lewis, MD, MS, instructor in Medicine, have been selected to co-lead the Veterans Affairs — Partnership to increase Access to Lung Screening (VA-PALS) National Program Evaluation.
January 17, 2019

Research explores link between stem cell transplant, diabetes

About a decade ago, at the beginning of his career in academic medicine, Brian Engelhardt, MD, MSCI, noticed that many of his patients receiving a stem cell transplant for their blood cancer ended up with diabetes.
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