Vanderbilt Health News Archive — Page 143 of 390

Guest Services volunteer Don Pierce helps family and friends of patients in the Trauma Intensive Care Unit.
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 Vanderbilt Health News
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.

Dae Kwang Jung, left, Brian Engelhardt, MD, MSCI, and colleagues are studying why stem cell transplant patients are at risk of developing diabetes.
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.

By Vanderbilt Health News
January 10, 2019

Anesthesiology project set to expand in Africa

Following the success of its ImPACT-Kenya (Improving Perioperative Anesthesia Care and Training) project, the Department of Anesthesiology has received another grant to expand into neighboring Ethiopia.

By Janelle Grewell
Ryan Seacrest speaks into a microphone in a hospital broadcast studio while seated guests and onlookers gather around the recording desk; cameras, microphones, and monitors fill the room.
January 10, 2019

Seacrest surprise

Radio and television host and producer Ryan Seacrest recently made a surprise visit to Seacrest Studio at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By Vanderbilt Health News
January 7, 2019

GE Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center partner for safer, more precise immunotherapy cancer treatment

GE Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) today announced a five-year partnership to enable safer and more precise cancer immunotherapies.

By Vanderbilt Health News