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April 15, 2021

Team analyzed clinical notes to identify COVID symptoms

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities first had to identify and draw attention to common signs and symptoms of the disease.

April 14, 2021

Five land ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Awards

Five Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members have received Young Physician-Scientist Awards from the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), an elite honor society of physician-scientists.

April 14, 2021

Rodes and Patricia Hart establish second chair in Department of Urology

H. Rodes Hart, BA’54, and Patricia Ingram Hart, BA’57, whose generous gifts continue to advance the mission of Vanderbilt as one of the world’s great universities for learning and discovery, have endowed a second chair in Urologic Surgery.

Christopher Menzel, MD, right, performed gastric bypass surgery for Kristian Wernet, left, a patient of the new Vanderbilt Weight Loss Center in Lebanon, Tennessee.
April 13, 2021

Weight Loss Center at VWCH helps expand bariatric surgery options

In May 2020, dangerously high blood pressure put 44-year-old Kristian Wernet in the hospital, a tipping point that led him to become one of the first individuals to have gastric bypass surgery at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) as a patient of the new Vanderbilt Weight Loss Center in Lebanon, Tennessee.

April 12, 2021

VUMC team’s COVID-19 research featured on “60 Minutes”

James Crowe, MD, and members of his lab at Vanderbilt University Medical Center who have pioneered rapid development of monoclonal antibody treatments for life-threatening viral diseases including COVID-19, were featured Sunday on a CBS News 60 Minutes segment titled “The Last Pandemic.”

James Crowe Jr., MD, and colleagues are exploring how the body’s immune system gears up to fight off infection.
April 12, 2021

Crowe receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award

James Crowe Jr., MD, a physician-scientist on the front lines of global research to eliminate human susceptibility to COVID-19 and other illnesses, is Vanderbilt University’s winner of the 2021 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.