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January 22, 2015
Pediatric Orthopaedics icon Green’s contributions honored
Neil Green, M.D., former director and chief of the Division of Pediatric Orthopaedics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, has retired after 38 years of service to Vanderbilt. -
January 22, 2015
New tool to enhance VUMC employee evaluation process
This year, Vanderbilt University Medical Center is using a new technology and format for mid-year and annual performance evaluations. -
January 22, 2015
VUMC research cores speed pace of discovery
Progress against America’s most intractable health challenges, among them heart disease, cancer and diabetes, requires the best minds, the latest tools and the easy collaboration demanded by 21st century science. -
January 22, 2015
Vanderbilt clinical workstations getting major upgrade
Clinical workstations throughout Vanderbilt University Medical Center will undergo an expansive upgrade early this year. Vanderbilt IT is entering into an operating lease with Dell Inc. to replace a significant number of clinical workstations located throughout VUMC’s hospitals and clinics. -
January 21, 2015
Findings do not support chlorhexidine bathing in ICUs
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers have found that bathing critically ill patients with disposable chlorhexidine cloths did not decrease the incidence of health care-associated infections when compared to less expensive nonantimicrobial cloths, according to a study appearing online in JAMA this week. -
January 20, 2015
Vanderbilt study finds use of methadone to treat pain carries increased risk of death
Outside the hospital, use of methadone to treat pain carries a 46 percent increased risk of death when compared to the equally effective but more costly alternative, morphine SR (sustained release). -
January 15, 2015
VUSM among top 10 in NIH grant support
According to annual figures available through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) continues to be ranked among the top 10 in the nation among U.S. medical schools in total grant support provided through the nation’s medical research agency.