Author: Wayne Wood
Annual observance of Doctors’ Day is March 30; Vanderbilt Health dedicated website set up for donations and messages
Mar. 23, 2022—Every day, Vanderbilt University Medical Center doctors go above and beyond to provide compassionate, personalized health care for our patients. On Doctors’ Day, March 30, you may show your appreciation for a doctor who has made a difference in your life or the life of someone you love by writing a note and making a...
VUMC donates medical supplies bound for Ukraine
Mar. 17, 2022—Vanderbilt University Medical Center responded to pleas for help from Ukrainian health officials by donating several tons of medical supplies to be shipped to Ukraine in coming days.
The MyWorkday project will touch all areas of VUMC; Change Network of employees begins its work
Mar. 4, 2022—MyWorkday is VUMC’s enterprise-wide project to replace existing business systems and processes. The MyWorkday project at VUMC involves the implementation of two new cloud-based systems, Workday and Tecsys. Taken together, this extensive transition of dozens of VUMC business systems set to occur later this year took a major step forward in late February with the...
Noted clinician, educator Lefkowitz mourned
Sep. 30, 2021—Lewis Lefkowitz, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, emeritus, whose dedication to health equity and underserved communities helped thousands of patients and influenced generations of Vanderbilt medical students, died Sept. 26. He was 90.
Vanderbilt mourns former Emergency Medicine leader Auerbach
Jun. 30, 2021—Paul Auerbach, MD, former chief of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, died June 23 in Los Altos, California.
New policy outlines how patients’ belongings, valuables are handled
May. 19, 2021—VUMC is in the process of implementing a new policy governing how the institution handles patients’ belongings and valuables.
VEI book wins four regional ADDY awards
Mar. 22, 2021—The Vanderbilt Eye Institute’s 50th anniversary book recently won four ADDY awards, including Best of Show in the print category, in the 2021 competition conducted by the Nashville chapter of the American Advertising Federation (AAF).
Buttons demonstrate wearers’ pronoun use
Mar. 17, 2021—The VUMC Office of Diversity Affairs is making available buttons that employees and students can wear telling what pronouns the wearer uses, or, in one case, a conversation starter that simply says “Ask me about my pronouns!”
Variety of influences helped shape Birch’s medical career
Oct. 22, 2020—Andrea Birch was 9 years old and on top of the world. Her visiting cousin had challenged her to a tree-climbing contest, and, as a competitive kid always up for a challenge, she had outclimbed him. She was looking down at him from her lofty perch and, as she recalls, “goading him from the top.
Former Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery leader Bender mourned
Sep. 14, 2020—Harvey W. Bender, MD, professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Emeritus, died Sept. 12. He was 86.
Telehealth grant boosts diabetes prevention efforts
Dec. 18, 2019—Vanderbilt’s Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) has demonstrated its effectiveness at helping employees lose weight as a means of preventing Type 2 diabetes and has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to expand the program using telehealth.
