The results are important because it could enable at-home testing and increased access to testing for patients undergoing telehealth care.

The pilot project, which is expected to digitize 500,000 slides over three years, aims to open avenues for research, assist with access to whole-slide images for education and clinical meetings (of tumor boards, for example), and facilitate planning for the implementation of digital pathology for diagnostic purposes. 

The research could point to future therapeutic strategies that treat PF patients based on their individual stage of cellular and molecular remodeling.

Vanderbilt patients will have close-to-home access to all aspects of preventive cardiology, assessment of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment, rather than having to drive to Nashville.

The inherited mutated gene WNT9B, which functions normally in embryonic prostate development, increases risk of adult prostate cancer.

Trauma patients come to VUH from a region covering 80,000 square miles, and approximately 9,400 acute trauma patients are treated at the hospital annually.

The Cancer Center relocated from its prior space inside Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital due to patient demand four years after its opening.