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Heart patient Gabe Ezell, 11, recently visited Children’s Hospital’s new Fontan Clinic to check on his overall health in addition to his congenital heart condition. In the photo above, Gabe visits with Fontan team members Anita Pai, MD, left, and Angela Weingarten, MD.
July 13, 2022

Clinic offers ongoing care for pediatric heart patients

Vanderbilt recently launched a new multidisciplinary Fontan Clinic, which will provide an ongoing, coordinated care plan for children and teens, ages 10-19, who have had the Fontan procedure for single ventricle heart disease.

By Christina Echegaray
Catherine Shelton was selected as the 2022 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.
July 13, 2022

Grad student Shelton selected as Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

Catherine Shelton has been selected as the 2022 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.

By Bill Snyder
July 12, 2022

Probing the tumor microenvironment

Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell sequencing, imaging, and computational approaches to characterize the colonic tumor microenvironment, providing important insights to the components that play roles in colorectal tumor pathogenesis.

By Leigh MacMillan
July 11, 2022

A speedier treatment for depression?

Vanderbilt researchers used a computer-based search to identify a compound with promise as a new, mechanistically distinct and rapid-acting therapy for major depressive disorder.

By Paul Govern
July 7, 2022

Preempting sudden cardiac death

A technique to characterize all variants in genes associated with arrhythmia could improve the ability to identify and preemptively treat individuals at risk for sudden cardiac death.

By Bill Snyder
July 7, 2022

Professionalism and patient outcomes

A study of more than 70,000 trauma patients found that those who received care from a service with a high proportion of physicians modeling unprofessional behavior were at a 24% increased risk of death or complications.

By Paul Govern
July 7, 2022

New Junior League gift celebrates 100 years of support

By Christina Echegaray
July 7, 2022

Breaking the stigma of AIDS part of Raffanti’s long legacy

On June 29 Stephen Raffanti, MD, MPH, hung up his scrubs at the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic for the last time. It was a bittersweet moment for the man who helped lead Nashville out of the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic 30 years ago.
By Bill Snyder
July 7, 2022

Convalescent plasma doesn’t help severely ill COVID patients: study

A Vanderbilt clinical trial shows that convalescent plasma, widely given to severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the pandemic, does not improve their ability to survive or recover
By Nancy Humphrey
July 7, 2022

Study seeks to disprove cephalosporin allergies

A Vanderbilt study shows that taking a careful history in patients who report allergies to cephalosporins and separating them into risk categories can help identify which patients are at low risk to be truly allergic to these antibiotics.
By Nancy Humphrey
July 7, 2022

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds social work fellowship program

Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital has launched a new social work fellowship which will prepare master’s degree-level graduates for social work in the behavioral health field.
By Emily Stembridge
July 7, 2022

Mathers Foundation award supports study of crosstalk between skeletal, immune systems

Vanderbilt's Jim Cassat, MD, PhD, has received a three-year, $750,000 award from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation to support research exploring the interplay between bone homeostasis and infectious disease.
By Leigh MacMillan
July 7, 2022

HOSA competition

Nashville was the host city for the recent Health Occupations Students of America leadership conference and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute was invited to host a competition.
By VUMC News and Communications
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