VUMC News and Communications

February 12, 2013

GROWing obesity prevention trial

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February 11, 2013

A Life Changed: A Vanderbilt nurse recounts the tragic night that would change her life forever

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February 7, 2013

Rounds: A message from the Vice Chancellor

On a recent Monday afternoon, the Pediatric Emergency Department at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt moved — within minutes — from the typical hustle and bustle of seeing and admitting patients to an entire children’s hospital on a state of full community alert.

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February 7, 2013

Registration open for Shade Tree Trot in April

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students hope hundreds of participants will come out to support their student-run free health clinic at this year’s Shade Tree Trot on Saturday, April 20.

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February 7, 2013

Memorial Gym to go pink for breast cancer awareness

The Vanderbilt Commodores Women’s Basketball team will be decked out in pink uniforms when they take the home court this Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m., in a matchup against the Kentucky Wildcats.

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February 7, 2013

Photo: Shave-a-thon

Ben Nelson grins and bears it as Angie Blackmore gives him a buzz cut during the Shave-a-thon to benefit the Arthritis Foundation at Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital.

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February 7, 2013

Seminar to help patients cope with impact of cancer treatments

Cancer patients undergoing some forms of chemotherapy often lose some or all of their hair, as well as eyebrows and eyelashes.
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February 7, 2013

Photo: Show of support

Tom and Vickie Flood recently visited with students at the Mama Lere Hearing School at Vanderbilt. The Floods’ philanthropy supports endowment for faculty, graduate students and research in childhood hearing loss at the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center.
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February 7, 2013

Shade Tree’s social work team helps meet needs

In an emotional moment at the Shade Tree Clinic, patient Faris Al-Jashami grasped medical student Stephen Dorner’s hand and vigorously shook it. He thanked Dorner repeatedly for helping him, but it wasn’t help for a medical problem.
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February 6, 2013

Observe National Heart Month

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February 5, 2013

Job fair for pediatric nurses Feb. 13

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January 31, 2013

Grant boosts VUSN’s Clinic at Mercury Courts

More than 1,200 underserved and disadvantaged people in Nashville will gain access to high-quality primary care thanks to a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Division of Nursing grant recently awarded to the Clinic at Mercury Courts.
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