VUMC News and Communications

African American woman looks up at sky
July 6, 2016

VICC researchers to study reasons for high breast cancer incidence and mortality rates among African-American women

A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and two other institutions have received $12 million in federal funding to help determine why African-American women die at a higher rate and have more aggressive breast cancer than white women.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 6, 2016

From My Southern Health: Hot cars in the summer – a mother’s story

A mother tells her story of the steps that can lead to accidentally leaving a baby in a car; and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt offers hot vehicle safety tips.

By VUMC News and Communications
Grissom manipulating ultrasound machine
June 30, 2016

Open-source instructions for focused ultrasound provide cancer research boost

Vanderbilt University’s William Grissom and Charles Caskey are throwing open doors with a do-it-yourself, open-source software and hardware guide to enabling existing imaging machines with focused ultrasound technology.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 30, 2016

Vanderbilt University Medical Center selected for CMS-led initiative promoting better cancer care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that it has selected Vanderbilt University Medical Center to participate in a care delivery model that supports and encourages higher quality, more coordinated cancer care. The Medicare arm of the Oncology Care Model includes more than 3,200 oncologists — about one-fifth of U.S. oncology specialists — and will involve approximately 155,000 Medicare beneficiaries nationwide.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 29, 2016

Vanderbilt doctors urge caution with Fourth of July fireworks

By VUMC News and Communications
June 27, 2016

Search committee announced for VUSN senior associate dean for research

Barbara A. Given, the Visiting Ingram Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and university distinguished professor at the Michigan State University College of Nursing, will lead the search committee for the next senior associate dean for research for VUSN.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 24, 2016

‘Tri My Best’ Triathlon seeks participants

By VUMC News and Communications
June 23, 2016

Mississippi family finds joy in giving back to VUMC

When the Pharr family wears Vanderbilt regalia around their Mississippi town, people often say, “I thought you were Ole Miss people.”
By VUMC News and Communications
June 22, 2016

Blake, Winder to lead national search committee for Vanderbilt Brain Institute director

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Susan R. Wente has appointed an 18-member committee of faculty and students to conduct the national search for the Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute chaired by Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, and Danny Winder, director for the Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 21, 2016

President nominates Hiebert for National Cancer Advisory Board

President Barack Obama has nominated Scott Hiebert, Ph.D., professor of Biochemistry and associate professor of Medicine, to serve as a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board (NCAB).
By VUMC News and Communications
June 16, 2016

Farmers’ Market open at VUMC each Thursday

The Nashville Farmers’ Market at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is now open every Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. through October 27.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 16, 2016

Biosciences career symposium offers employment tips

Don’t worry, there is life — and a good job — at the end of graduate and postdoctoral training. But it won’t drop in your lap. You have to reach out and talk to people.
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