VUMC News and Communications

July 21, 2016

Dog Days of Summer

Last week, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt held a “Dog Days of Summer Paw-ty” for patients and families.

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July 20, 2016

Vanderbilt-Miami-Meharry Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine and Population Health launches

The new center—which will enable research using approaches to precision medicine to eradicate health disparities, specifically those among African Americans and Latinos—is the result of a five-year, $11.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

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July 14, 2016

Phishers target Medical Center employees via fake salary increase emails

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July 14, 2016

New center to focus on turning raw data into ‘actionable’ knowledge

From extensive test results to exam notes to the very latest in medical research, modern health care professionals have become overloaded with data. As a result, it is now a critical mission for academic medical centers to translate this often-raw data into actionable knowledge used to deliver expert patient care, drive efficient clinical operations and promote discovery and education.

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July 14, 2016

Vanderbilt Eye Institute Hendersonville

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July 14, 2016

VICC expands cancer care services at Spring Hill clinic

Cancer patients who live near Spring Hill, Tennessee, can now receive care from an experienced medical oncologist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) at Spring Hill instead of traveling to the main campus in Nashville.

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July 12, 2016

Vanderbilt study shows people with Alzheimer’s have lower ability to perceive pain

People with Alzheimer’s disease don’t perceive pain as readily as healthy older adults, and this may lead to delays and underreporting of pain. This alteration in pain detection may be one reason that people with Alzheimer’s disease and pain tend to be undermedicated and suffer unnecessarily, a trans-institutional group of Vanderbilt researchers reported recently in BMC Medicine.
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July 7, 2016

My Southern Health: Flu shots will replace ineffective spray vaccines

Take note—shots may be the only recommended vaccine option next flu season.
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July 7, 2016

VKC, state team to expand services for children with autism

The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) has awarded three training and technical assistance grants totaling $3.25 million to Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD) to enhance statewide services for children with autism and other intellectual and developmental disabilities from birth to kindergarten.
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July 7, 2016

Lifting Lives Music Camp

The seventh annual ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp, a partnership between the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center and the Academy of Country Music, convened June 22-29.
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July 7, 2016

Idrees receives award for cancer outcomes research

Kamran Idrees, M.D., MSCI, assistant professor of Surgery, has received a Young Investigator Award from the Society of Surgical Oncology Foundation (SSO).
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July 7, 2016

Food truck wishes

Patients, families and staff at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt were treated to lunch recently at a food truck event provided by Chef Lucas Food, a nonprofit started by a Minneapolis, Minnesota, teen who is a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor and food truck fanatic.
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