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Braiden Williams, 15, meets country and gospel artist Randy Travis during a recent visit to Seacrest Studio at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
February 20, 2020

Country icon Randy Travis pays a visit

Randy Travis recently paid a visit to Seacrest Studio at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By Doug Campbell
February 20, 2020

Discovery Lecture to feature head and neck cancer expert Grandis

By Leigh MacMillan
February 20, 2020

Transporter mutation alters cell energy

A disease-associated mutation in a transporter protein causes cells to increase energy production, as if they are starving, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered.

By Leigh MacMillan
The 59th annual Christmas Village, a three-day November shopping extravaganza organized by the Nashville Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, raised $530,600 to benefit the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and other Pi Beta Phi philanthropies.
February 20, 2020

It takes a village

The 59th annual Christmas Village, a three-day November shopping extravaganza organized by the Nashville Pi Beta Phi Alumnae Club, raised $530,600 to benefit the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and other Pi Beta Phi philanthropies.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 20, 2020

Symposium to focus on stem cell transplant, cellular therapies

New therapies that re-engineer patients’ T-cells to target cancer and advances in stem cell transplantations that make it easier for patients to be matched with donors are among the topics at an upcoming symposium.

By Tom Wilemon
February 20, 2020

Zsamboky named to lead psych-mental health NP program

Marci Zsamboky, DNP, RN, PMHNP/CNS-BC, has been named academic director of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Lifespan) specialty at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

By Nancy Wise
February 19, 2020

Awards honor research staff’s crucial contributions

Laboratory and administrative personnel at VUMC were honored last week for research excellence during the 16th annual Research Staff Awards luncheon.
By Bill Snyder
February 19, 2020

Vanderbilt University Medical Center among top 100 proposals for MacArthur Foundation $100 million grant

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today unveiled a grant proposal from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as one of the highest-scoring proposals, designated as the “Top 100,” in its 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world’s most critical societal challenges.
By Bill Snyder
February 19, 2020

Rounds: A tagline to remember

By Doug Campbell
February 18, 2020

Barbershops targeted to improve health of black men

Black men with high blood pressure could benefit from a research study beginning this month to check their vitals while they are getting a haircut at a barbershop.
By Kelsey Herbers
February 17, 2020

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital receives reaccreditation from Joint Commission

Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital has received reaccreditation from the Joint Commission (TJC), an independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies more than 22,000 U.S. health care organizations and programs.
By Kelsey Herbers
February 14, 2020

Vanderbilt University Medical Center to break ground on Hendersonville multi-specialty clinic

Vanderbilt University Medical Center will soon break ground on a new 31,000-square-foot facility that will offer adult outpatient specialty care, along with limited pediatric specialty care and imaging services to the citizens of Sumner and surrounding counties.
By Christina Echegaray
February 14, 2020

Study finds most Tennessee infants exposed to hepatitis C at birth are not later tested to see if they acquired the virus

A recent study by researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt Center for Child Health Policy found that in Tennessee, most infants exposed to hepatitis C virus at the time of birth are not tested later to see if they acquired the virus.
By Jessica Pasley
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