VUMC News and Communications

September 9, 2005

Vanderbilt continues to respond to victims of Hurricane Katrina

A week after Vanderbilt University began admitting students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, approximately 100 students from Gulf Coast colleges and universities had registered for classes. Vanderbilt Medical Center now has treated more than 70 Gulf Coast evacuees, hospitalizing more than 20, and its LifeFlight reserve helicopter and fixed wing aircraft and their medical teams continue to assist in disaster relief and patient transport out of the region.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 6, 2005

Vanderbilt LifeFlight sends helicopter, nurse team to help with disaster relief, response

Vanderbilt LifeFlight has dispatched its reserve helicopter and a medical team to Hattiesburg, Miss., to assist in disaster relief efforts after a call for assistance was made to Tennessee EMS officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 6, 2005

Vanderbilt School of Nursing opens clinic for hurricane refugees now in Middle Tennessee

In an effort to help displaced hurricane refugees from the Gulf Coast area, the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing is holding a special clinic for hurricane victims needing health care at the Vine Hill Clinic on Tuesday and Thursday evenings to treat hurricane disaster refugees who have sought refuge in Middle Tennessee.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 6, 2005

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center offering cancer treatment for patients displaced by Hurricane Katrina

Cancer patients displaced by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath who are in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky and in need of continued treatment can contact the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center for assistance.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 6, 2005

Middle Tennessee Medical Reserve Corps opens warehouse to receive donated materials for hurricane relief assistance

Beginning at 1 p.m. today, the Middle Tennessee Medical Reserve Corps (MTMRC) will open a warehouse within the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, located on James Robertson Parkway in downtown Nashville, to receive personal items as well as medical supplies to assist hurricane disaster relief efforts. Beginning tomorrow, warehouse hours will be 7 a.m.-7 p.m. each day.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 8, 2005

Fourth annual Roads Scholars Tour takes Vanderbilt to Alabama

From the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and from the University of the South to Jack Daniel’s Distillery, the cultural, educational and economic engines of southeastern and Middle Tennessee and north and central Alabama will be showcased on the fourth annual Vanderbilt Roads Scholars Tour.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 8, 2005

CCFA and VUMC Host Education Forum for Crohn‘s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

The Crohn‘s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) are hosting the third annual Living With Crohn‘s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis patient education program.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 27, 2005

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing professor to ride with Lance Armstrong in Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope

Joan King, Ph.D., M.S.N., R.N.C., a cancer survivor and director of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing‘s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, has been chosen to ride across the country alongside seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong in a campaign called the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 26, 2005

Vanderbilt sees increased number of heat-related illnesses

Vanderbilt‘s emergency physicians are seeing an increase in the number of heat-related emergencies and are urging the public to take precautions in the extreme heat.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 12, 2005

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director to receive autism research award

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director Pat Levitt has been awarded the 2005 Research Champion Award by the Autism Society of America (ASA).
By VUMC News and Communications
July 11, 2005

Vanderbilt‘s Catron named Tennessee‘s Children‘s Care Director by Governor

Thomas F. Catron, associate professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt Medical Center, has been named by Governor Phil Bredesen as the director of the Governor‘s Office of Children‘s Care Coordination.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 20, 2005

Bug Season calls for Precautions

The great outdoors will keep children busy and active this season, but experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at Vanderbilt say parents would be wise to use a little precaution before play time to avoid insect-borne illnesses, typically caused by insect bites or stings.
By VUMC News and Communications
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