Wayne Wood

Paramedic Michael Atwood looks at the Nashville skyline while working the Big Machine Music City Grand Prix in August. (photo by Alyssa Smith)
September 15, 2023

LifeFlight Event Medicine now official provider for the Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium

Vanderbilt LifeFlight Event Medicine is now the official event medicine provider for the Grand Ole Opry and the Ryman Auditorium.

By Wayne Wood
August 31, 2023

VUMC named on Healthiest Employers list

Healthiest Employers, a national award program, has named Vanderbilt University Medical Center one of the Healthiest Employers in Tennessee in the category for organizations with more than 10,000 employees.

By Wayne Wood
August 31, 2023

Cindy Lowe of Translational Pathology Shared Resource wins award from National Society of Histotechnology

Cindy Lowe, research assistant in the Translational Pathology Shared Resource at VUMC, has won the National Society of Histotechnology’s Jules Elias Excellence in Immunohistochemistry & Molecular Techniques Award.

By Wayne Wood
July 25, 2023

The Wild Kingdom guy thought it would be a good idea to bring a python into the hospital. He was right.

It’s cold-blooded, check it and see

By Wayne Wood
June 20, 2023

VUMC Voice Pet Photo Contest deadline is July 10

Medical Center people are invited to enter pictures of their dogs, cats, hamsters, horses, snakes, gerbils, goats, lizards, llamas and possibly some animals that we’ve never had entered before.
Farmers' Market
May 23, 2023

Farmers’ Market on VUMC Plaza Thursday afternoons

By Wayne Wood
May 15, 2023

Polio patients, iron lung respirators, and…hey, is that Pat Boone??!!

Polio was a terrifying disease, once filling wards at VUMC with paralyzed patients in iron lungs. Vaccines have saved us from all that.
By Wayne Wood
May 15, 2023

I was the last person in an iron lung at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

It was in a storage room. It still worked. For some reason, I was allowed to get in it.
By Wayne Wood
March 30, 2023

University of Copenhagen’s Lars Hviid to lecture on acquired immunity to malaria, April 12

By Wayne Wood
March 28, 2023

Crane to be on VUMC Plaza Saturday, April 1

By Wayne Wood
March 23, 2023

COVID-19 vaccination site at One Hundred Oaks to close April 7

By Wayne Wood
March 21, 2023

Women’s History Month virtual storytelling panel to be March 29

By Wayne Wood
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