VUMC News and Communications

November 5, 2015

Update on CS 2.0 from Kevin Johnson

In Town Halls, Conversation with Leaders, and Leadership Assemblies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) employees are hearing the theme of “Make Care Seamless.”

By VUMC News and Communications
November 5, 2015

Cancer Survivors Day

Cancer survivors, family and friends rock to tunes performed by Soul Incision during the annual cancer Survivors Day celebration.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

Lady Antebellum, guest stars present Nov. 9 show benefiting Children’s Hospital

Grammy Award-winning Lady Antebellum and special musical guests will present a powerful night of music Nov. 9 benefiting the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

Investigators find clues to melanoma treatment resistance

Nearly half of all patients with malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, have a mutation in the BRAF gene found in their tumors. Mutations in the BRAF gene turn on a cancer growth switch known as the MAP kinase pathway.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

Holiday Project party

The Holiday Project, now in its 42nd year, features art by children — patients and siblings — whose lives have been touched by Children’s Hospital.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

Buena Vista CHAMPs

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Buena Vista Enhanced Option Elementary School leaders, students and community recently celebrated the opening of a new outdoor classroom and garden.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

Photo: value-based care seminar

Michael Porter, Ph.D., MBA, of Harvard Business School, a leading authority on organizational strategy, spoke recently at the Owen Graduate School of Management during the opening session of the First Annual Value-based Health Care Delivery Seminar.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 29, 2015

ICU Recovery Center helps ease burden of critical illness

Quinton Smith doesn’t remember much of what happened one Sunday evening last March. He was disoriented, unable to stand and could not even recognize his girlfriend’s face after she returned home from work.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 28, 2015

Reminder: Child pedestrian deaths increase on Halloween night

Safety experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt know Halloween can be scary, but for different reasons than you think. On average, twice as many children are killed while walking on Halloween than on any other day of the year.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

VUMC and Incyte Corp. form new scientific alliance

Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have joined forces with scientists at Incyte Corp. to explore new therapies for the treatment of various types of cancer, as well as other diseases. The company has agreed to help fund basic and translational science research by VUMC investigators.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

VU-invented wireless ECG system receives FDA approval

A wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) system invented at Vanderbilt University and marketed by a Nashville company, InvisionHeart, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 22, 2015

Cancer Survivorship Celebration set for Nov. 1

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, in partnership with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is hosting the 2015 Cancer Survivorship Celebration Sunday, Nov. 1, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.
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