VUMC News and Communications

March 9, 2016

Erik Carter serves as expert speaker at Congressional briefing

Changing post-school pathways of youth and young adults with severe disabilities was the focus of Erik Carter’s presentation at a Congressional briefing.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 9, 2016

Spring forward this weekend; Get tips on surviving the seasonal time change

Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center specialist Kelly Brown has a list of tips people can follow to avoid the jolt to their sleep cycles and the resulting fatigue when clocks spring forward on Sunday, March 13.
March 7, 2016

A clue to cell cleavage

Actin and microtubule cytoskeletons are coordinated during cytokinesis – the process that separates one cell into two and is linked to events underlying cancer.

By Sanjay Mishra
March 4, 2016

Next Steps students celebrate courage and dreams

The students of Next Steps at Vanderbilt are this year’s recipient of the Perry Wallace Courage Award.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Over 50? Let us schedule your colonoscopy

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and the goal of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center is to encourage and help all Vanderbilt employees to schedule their colonoscopies.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Department of Medicine Mini-Research Retreat is March 12

The Department of Medicine’s Mini-Research Retreat is Saturday, March 12, from 8 a.m. until noon in Light Hall 208.

By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

First VICC cancer patient treated with new immunotherapy

For the first time, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have used a cancer patient’s own re-engineered immune cells to treat a form of blood cancer by stimulating the immune system.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Making their day

Joe Don Rooney of the group Rascal Flatts came the closest to a hole-in-one at the inaugural Million Dollar Hole-in-One for Charity event at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Feb. 11 in California. Rooney chose Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as the beneficiary of his $50,000 prize.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Anesthesiology debuts new patient outcomes system

The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division has launched a novel system that connects clinicians in the Department of Anesthesiology to their patients’ outcomes.
By Renuka Christoph
March 3, 2016

Meeting highlights growth of VUMC’s social media efforts

Leaders of social media programs at 15 major hospitals and health systems gathered in Nashville last week as Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) hosted the “founders meeting” of a new national organization.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Happy anniversary

A special event was held last week celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vanderbilt’s liver transplant program.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 3, 2016

Sandberg elected president-elect of Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists

Warren Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology and professor of Biomedical Informatics and Surgery, has been elected president-elect of the Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists.
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