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Ken Browning is retiring after more than three decades overseeing buildings at VUMC.
February 25, 2019

Browning leaves behind legacy of buildings and better lives for the people who use them

It’s a crisp February morning and Ken Browning, just a few days short of his retirement, let his gaze travel down the Medical Center plaza. From where he stood, just outside Medical Center North, a three-block long canyon of buildings stretches south and forms the heart of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Wayne Wood
February 25, 2019

Eligible physicians can now vote in U.S. News “Best Hospitals” survey

Annual voting is now open for U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” rankings for adult and children’s hospitals. Online voting for eligible physicians to complete their survey takes place on Doximity (www.doximity.com). The surveys will remain open throughout the month of March.

By VUMC News and Communications
February 22, 2019

Outdated VUMC logos to be removed by 2020

With the help of more than 100 submissions from colleagues across Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Strategic Marketing team has concluded its campaign in search of outdated VUMC logos, with a goal to have them removed by 2020.

By VUMC News and Communications
Louise Rollins-Smith, PhD, right, Laura Reinert, MS, and colleagues are studying how amphibian populations are impacted by climate change.
February 21, 2019

Research shows frogs can adapt to traffic noise

Frogs don’t like living near noisy highways any better than people do, but research from Vanderbilt suggests that frogs, like hardened city-dwellers, can learn to adapt to the constant din of rumbling trucks, rolling tires and honking horns.

By Nora Foegeding
February 21, 2019

Skin diseases study uses crowdsourcing to gather data

In 1906, English statistician Francis Galton happened to visit a livestock fair where fairgoers were invited to guess the dressed weight of an ox scheduled for imminent slaughter. Some 800 attendees took part and afterwards Galton got hold of the contest data.

By Paul Govern
February 21, 2019

VUMC chikungunya antibody set to enter clinical trial

A monoclonal antibody against the chikungunya virus developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the first monoclonal antibody encoded by messenger RNA to enter a clinical trial.

By Bill Snyder
February 21, 2019

AHA statement supports vascular cardio-oncology

The American Heart Association (AHA) has issued a scientific statement calling for the integration of cardio-oncology and vascular medicine to provide cancer patients and cancer survivors with optimal cardiovascular care.
By Tom Wilemon
February 21, 2019

Allstate grant bolsters Children’s Hospital teen driver safety efforts

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt kicked off its yearlong campaign to empower teens to “Be in the Zone — Turn off Your Phone” during the first of three hospital-focused seminars.
By Jessica Pasley
February 21, 2019

Bachmann lauded by American College of Cardiology

Justin Bachmann, MD, MPH, is receiving the Presidential Career Development Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC), which comes with one year of research support totaling $70,000.
By Matt Batcheldor
February 21, 2019

Strong female role models, rare hobby helped shape Beyer

When Bruce Beyer, MD, was a teenager, his grandmother stitched a needlepoint scene of a deer by a woodland stream that she gave him with explicit instructions to “hang it in his doctor’s office.”
By Jill Clendening
February 21, 2019

Study takes personal approach to cochlear implant programming

Vanderbilt University Medical Center recently received a $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve outcomes for children with significant hearing loss by providing individualized, prescription-like programming for their cochlear implants.
By Kelsey Herbers
February 21, 2019

Discovery points to new cancer immunotherapy option

An international team involving Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that a new “checkpoint” protein on immune system cells is active in tumors, and that blocking it — in combination with other treatments — is a successful therapeutic approach in mouse models of cancer.
By Leigh MacMillan
February 21, 2019

New sculpture honors organ donors, families

Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees and guests gathered in the sixth floor atrium of the Critical Care Tower on Feb. 14 to dedicate “The Gift of Life,” a metal sculpture memorializing the final, selfless act of VUMC’s organ donors and their families.
By Matt Batcheldor
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