VUMC News and Communications

September 27, 2012

New VU blog a place for parents, caregivers to connect

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is inviting people to participate in Wishing Well, a new blog designed to connect and engage the community, patient families, doctors, nurses and others who raise and care for babies and children.

By VUMC News and Communications

September 27, 2012

International medicine, ethics focus of resident’s book

Second-year General Surgery resident Anji Wall, M.D., Ph.D., hasn’t yet decided her surgical specialty, but she’s already written the book on ethics and international medicine, literally.

By VUMC News and Communications

September 27, 2012

Photo: Lung Cancer Partnership

By VUMC News and Communications

September 27, 2012

Young athlete’s case illustrates concussion’s lingering effects

Cannon County High School basketball player Rebekah Faulkner doesn’t remember much about colliding with a rival player during a training camp game early this summer.

By VUMC News and Communications

September 27, 2012

VUH debuts new unit dedicated to palliative care

When Mohana Karlekar, M.D., talks with patient families, she almost always asks what they know about palliative care, and the answer is almost always the same — “Not much.”