Medicine Posts

October 8, 2025

A Look Back at Shade Tree Over the Years

By Jill Clendening
October 8, 2025

Every dollar has a purpose 

By Jill Clendening
October 8, 2025

Shade Tree Clinic began with an undaunted duo 

By Jill Clendening
October 8, 2025

Alumni Profile: Liya Beyderman, MD

Transforming pediatric neurology — one child at a time

By Christina Echegaray
October 8, 2025

Fall 2025 Class Notes

October 8, 2025

Alumni Profile: Randal Hundley, MD’79 

Cardiologist with a heart for music

By Tom Wilemon
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