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Transforming pediatric neurology — one child at a time

Cardiologist with a heart for music

October 8, 2025 Core commitments remain consistent By Jeff Balser
October 8, 2025 How zebrafish — and many hands — solve the ‘jigsaw puzzles’ of human disease
Ela Knapik, MD, professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has devoted her career to collaborating with others to solve the “jigsaw puzzles” of disease. Her lab is known internationally for its use of modern genome-editing techniques in a powerful animal model — zebrafish.
By Bill Snyder
October 8, 2025 In My Life: Lealani Mae Acosta, MD By Jill Clendening
October 8, 2025 Fall 2025 Faces and Places
October 8, 2025 Pediatric solid organ transplant program transforms young lives
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is among an elite group of pediatric hospitals offering heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung and dual organ transplants. The pediatric solid organ program is a part of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center (VTC) one of the nation’s busiest transplant centers.
By Jessica Pasley
October 8, 2025 Giving in Action: Laura Witherspoon
A surgeon’s unexpected path to medicine and philanthropy
By Payton Baggett Reynolds