VUMC News and Communications

January 21, 2016

Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic debuts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials cut the ribbon at Tuesday’s open house celebrating the debut of Vanderbilt Health’s new Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic.

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January 21, 2016

Angelaki lecture

Dora Angelaki, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine, explored a computational perspective on autism at her recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

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January 21, 2016

VU investigators use magnetism to help isolate malaria biomarker

Vanderbilt investigators have developed a way to detect malaria that is faster and more sensitive than current clinical methods — a development that has the potential to make malaria detection significantly less expensive and more stable.

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January 21, 2016

Ayre named Patient Flow Center associate director

Christin Ayre, MSN, R.N., has been named the associate director of the Vanderbilt Patient Flow Center, effective Feb. 1.

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January 21, 2016

Allstate support

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will expand its teen motor vehicle safety program, “Be in the Zone — Turn off Your Phone,” with the help of a $60,000 award from the Allstate Foundation.

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January 20, 2016

W-2 forms to be mailed next week; also available on C2HR

W-2 forms are scheduled to be mailed next week to current employees and former employees who earned money from Vanderbilt during the 2015 calendar year.

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January 19, 2016

Follow these tips for maintaining weight loss

Many people manage to lose weight, but few of them keep it off. Learn how the successful few avoid regaining weight in this article from MySouthernHealth.com.
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January 18, 2016

Get to know tax form 1095-C: Coming soon to your mailbox

Expect to see a new form that will be mailed to your home address this January. Form 1095-C reports important health insurance information you’ll need when completing your tax return.
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January 14, 2016

VICC helps expand cancer patient’s treatment options

Edward (Ned) Wikle recently celebrated the Christmas holidays with his wife and three young children, a celebration the Jackson, Mississippi-based endodontist, U.S. Navy veteran and cancer patient wasn’t sure he would have.
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January 13, 2016

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt launches new Pediatric Specialty Clinic in Murfreesboro

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January 12, 2016

Beware: Winter coats and child car seats don’t mix

Bulky coats can give the false impression that your child is snugly strapped into his or her car seat, warns Purnima Unni, manager of the Pediatric Trauma Injury Prevention Program at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in this MySouthernHealth.com article.
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January 12, 2016

Study shows veteran, civilian patients at risk of ICU-related PTSD

In a first-of-its-kind study of veterans and civilians, researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that one in 10 patients is at risk of having a new post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following their time in the intensive care unit (ICU).
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