VUMC News and Communications

March 21, 2013

Residency questions answered at Match Day

Match Day at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) has grown so popular the event moved from its traditional lecture hall setting at Light Hall to the more-spacious Langford Auditorium.

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March 21, 2013

Breast cancer study explores therapy to slow recurrence

Many patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have recurrence of their disease after an initial response to chemotherapy because the cancer cells have become resistant to treatment. TNBC has a lower survival rate because of this pattern of resistance and there are no targeted agents to treat this form of breast cancer.

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March 20, 2013

Workshop for people who stutter April 6

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March 19, 2013

Understanding Vanderbilt emergency sirens and AlertVU

Severe weather in Nashville March 18 prompted the sounding of Metropolitan Nashville’s sirens and also prompted some questions about Vanderbilt’s notification system.

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March 14, 2013

FAQs: VUMC and economic repositioning

The following are answers to frequently asked questions regarding the financial pressures created by the federal budget sequester and other legislation now facing Vanderbilt University Medical Center and academic health centers across the country.

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March 14, 2013

Lindsley honored for impact on medicinal chemistry field

Vanderbilt University’s Craig Lindsley, Ph.D., is the 2013 recipient of the Philip S. Portoghese Lectureship, awarded jointly by the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Medicinal Chemistry.

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March 14, 2013

Multiple Sclerosis Center honored

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Multiple Sclerosis Center has been named a Comprehensive Care Center by the National MS Society.
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March 14, 2013

Photo: VICB anniversary

The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB) celebrated its 10th anniversary Tuesday with a daylong research symposium.
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March 14, 2013

Churchwell’s signature style to be on display at men’s fashion exhibit

His dapper sense of style is well known to his Vanderbilt colleagues, and now it is bringing broader attention to Andre Churchwell, M.D., associate dean of Diversity at the School of Medicine.
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March 14, 2013

Franklin Women’s Center to offer bone tests, mammograms

The Vanderbilt Franklin Women’s Center at Williamson Medical Center is now offering screening mammograms and bone density tests for patients in the community.
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March 14, 2013

Photo: Discovery Lecture

Scott Hultgren, Ph.D., director of the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research at Washington University in St. Louis, talked about improving therapies for urinary tract infections during his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.
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March 12, 2013

VUSM ranked among nation’s top schools

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is once again named among the nation’s elite Research Schools of Medicine in U.S. News & World Report magazine’s 2014 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings, released this week.
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