VUMC News and Communications

October 2, 2015

The yin and yang of COX-2

New findings add to the understanding of how the enzyme COX-2 works, which is critical to the development of COX-2-targeted anti-inflammatory drugs.

By Sanjay Mishra
October 1, 2015

VUMC wins Spring 2015 Digital Health Awards

VUMC’s Strategic Marketing Department has received multiple awards in the 17th annual Digital Health Awards program.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

New Medical Faculty 2015

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

VUMC completes transition to new ICD-10 system

After months transitioning clinics across Vanderbilt University Medical Center and training clinicians and staff, the move to the new medical coding and reporting system is complete.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

VICC investigators land Komen breast cancer grants

Two Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators — Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology and director of VICC, and Valerie Jansen, M.D., Ph.D., medical oncology fellow — have received new cancer research grants awarded by Susan G. Komen, the world’s largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

Photo: Discovery trio

Vanderbilt’s Thomas Wang, M.D., left, Nancy Brown, M.D., and David Bader, Ph.D., explored the human determinants of cardiovascular disease and treatment at last week’s Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

Many hands help make wedding dream come true

Their wedding date was just weeks away when Caleb Hanby and his fiancée Bethany Davidson rushed to Vanderbilt University Medical Center last Thursday.
By VUMC News and Communications
October 1, 2015

New digital tools set to enhance patient experience at VUMC

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is introducing a host of customer-focused digital tools to increase access and help patients better manage their health.
By VUMC News and Communications
September 29, 2015

Annual Needles and Pins Craft Fair Oct. 8 and 9

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center Staff Advisory Council will host the Needles and Pins Craft Fair Oct. 8 and 9 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the breezeway between Light Hall and the Robinson Research Building.
By VUMC News and Communications
September 24, 2015

Team to explore using nanoparticles to fight cancer

Three Vanderbilt researchers have received a federal grant to study the use of nanoparticles to deliver potential therapies for breast cancer that has spread to the bone.
By VUMC News and Communications
September 24, 2015

Ovarian cancer foundation honors VUMC’s Khabele

Dineo Khabele, M.D., associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Cancer Biology, has been named to the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (OCRF).
By VUMC News and Communications
September 24, 2015

Nursing School lands AANA postdoctoral fellowship

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN) was recently awarded support for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) Foundation for a health services research topic related to anesthetic operative phenomena.
By VUMC News and Communications
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