VUMC News and Communications

May 21, 2015

Initiative to speed call response times sees success

For patients who pick up the telephone to call VUMC, one of the first opportunities to make a good impression is how quickly they get a real person on the line.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 21, 2015

Photo: Teen Cancer America

The Who’s Roger Daltrey and The Band Perry met with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt representatives recently as part of Teen Cancer America.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 21, 2015

VICC Annual Retreat focuses on immunotherapy

Efforts to enable the immune system to “see” the cancer and attack the aberrant cells were the prime focus during Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Annual Retreat, held April 30 at the Vanderbilt University Student Life Center.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 21, 2015

Coleman’s telethon work a longtime labor of love

Not long after Tuwanda Coleman started her career as a TV producer at WTVF-NewsChannel 5 more than 30 years ago, she was given an assignment that was different from the typical minutes-long news segment.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 20, 2015

Volunteers needed for upcoming community events

Volunteers are needed for two upcoming events sponsored by the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 19, 2015

Mindfulness-based stress reduction available at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

Vanderbilt’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is offering training sessions on mindfulness-based stress reduction.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 14, 2015

VUSN graduates ready to be positive force in health care

Linda Norman, DSN, R.N., Valere Potter Menefee Professor of Nursing and dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, told graduates during Vanderbilt’s Commencement and Investiture ceremonies last week that “nursing today is as influential as when Florence Nightingale defined and organized nursing in the United Kingdom in the 1800s. We are one of the most essential elements in health care delivery today and are being recognized for it.”
By VUMC News and Communications
May 14, 2015

Jansen’s cancer research efforts garner recognition

Valerie Malyvanh Jansen, M.D., Ph.D., a third-year medical oncology fellow, recently received several national awards and grants, as well as a Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center fellowship, in recognition of her translational cancer research.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 14, 2015

American Surgical Association lauds VUMC’s Beauchamp

R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and the John Clinton Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery, was selected to receive the 2015 Flance-Karl Award from the American Surgical Association (ASA).
By VUMC News and Communications
May 11, 2015

MEDIA ADVISORY: Experts to discuss EPA’s Clean Power Plan May 18-19 at Vanderbilt

An in-depth exploration of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan to significantly reduce carbon emissions from power plants is the topic of a two-day conference being held May 18-19 at Vanderbilt University Law School.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 8, 2015

Vanderbilt University honors 28 as emeriti faculty

Twenty-eight retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s Commencement ceremony May 8, when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 8, 2015

Vanderbilt awards Founder’s Medals to top scholars at Commencement

Vanderbilt awarded Founder’s Medals to its top scholars at Commencement, May 8.
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