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May 19, 2023

Gorden honored with Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Lifetime Achievement Award

Phillip Gorden, MD, a Vanderbilt University undergraduate and School of Medicine alumnus, was recently honored with the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Lifetime Achievement Award, during the recent Diabetes Day sponsored by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center and the Irwin B. Eskind Endowed Symposium.

By Jill Clendening
May 19, 2023

New Angel 7 ambulance offers ECMO transport

With the addition of a specially designed new ambulance, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is now the first pediatric transport team in the state to offer ECMO transport for its patients.

By Jessica Pasley
skin cross section
May 18, 2023

A critical skin enzyme

Detailed studies of the enzymatic properties of PNPLA1 support the requirement for this protein in skin barrier formation.

By Leigh MacMillan
May 18, 2023

Billing codes aid lupus diagnosis

Vanderbilt researchers used billing codes in electronic health records to develop a “phenotype risk score” that identified established and undiagnosed people with lupus.

By Bill Snyder
From left are Kathy Gould, PhD, Vanderbilt Prize recipient Ruth Lehmann, PhD, Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar Catherine Shelton and John Kuriyan, PhD.
May 18, 2023

Vanderbilt Prize lecture highlights diversity, mentoring

Ruth Lehmann, PhD, director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, delivered last week’s Vanderbilt Prize Discovery Lecture.

By Bill Snyder
May 18, 2023

New view of mutations informs disease risk, treatment response

A transcontinental research effort led by scientists from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Michigan has upended some long-standing assumptions about mutations — how often they occur, what causes them and what they do.

By Bill Snyder
May 18, 2023

Event celebrates five years of DAISY Awards

Winners of The DAISY Award from throughout Vanderbilt Health gathered recently to celebrate nearly five years that Vanderbilt has participated in the national recognition for extraordinary nurses who exemplify compassion toward patients and families.
By Matt Batcheldor
May 17, 2023

Commencement 2023

Hundreds of Vanderbilt medical, nursing and graduate students took part in last week's Commencement.
May 17, 2023

Poll shows more than 1-in-4 Tennessee parents worried their kids have undiagnosed depression, anxiety

The latest analysis of the 2023 Tennessee Child Health Poll, released during National Mental Health Awareness Month, has found that roughly 29% of Tennessee parents are concerned their child has undiagnosed anxiety or depression.
By Jake Lowary
May 16, 2023

Steeplechase 2023

The 83rd Running of the Iroquois Steeplechase benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt was Saturday, May 13.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 11, 2023

100th patient receives ambulatory heart failure device

New implantable device helps heart failure patients monitor crucial health indicators remotely, reducing the need for hospital visits.
By Matt Batcheldor
May 11, 2023

Procedure uses patient’s own growth to treat scoliosis

Vanderbilt pediatric orthopaedic surgeons are the first in Tennessee to perform an innovative procedure to treat scoliosis that uses the patient’s own growth to correct the curve.
By Jessica Pasley
May 11, 2023

Bauml, Wright land eStar Physician Builder Awards

Vanderbilt radiologist and clinical informatics fellow Julie Bauml, MD, and internal medicine specialist Aileen Wright, MD, have received 2023 Physician Builder Awards.  
By Paul Govern
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