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Models take their final runway walk at Friends & Fashion Monday at the Music City Center.
April 7, 2022

Friends & Fashion event returns to the runway

After a two-year break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Friends & Fashion returned in style to raise funds for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

By VUMC News and Communications
Charlotte Haffner, a former VUMC patient treated for primary AL amyloidosis, with Franklin Mayor Ken Moore, left, and Muhamed Baljevic, MD.
April 7, 2022

Patient’s amyloidosis awareness efforts recognized

Charlotte Haffner, who was Vanderbilt’s first patient to undergo a heart transplant followed by a stem cell transplant to treat primary AL amyloidosis, was recently recognized by Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson and Franklin Mayor Ken Moore.

By Matt Batcheldor
April 6, 2022

VU, VUMC research funding surpasses $1 billion

Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center received more than $1 billion in research funding awarded from external organizations in 2021.

By Marissa Shapiro
VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
April 6, 2022

Major grant renewal to provide five more years of support for VICTR

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has competed successfully for a third renewal of its Clinical and Translational Science Award by the National Institutes of Health.

By Bill Snyder
Corey Slovis, MD, recently received the Lifetime Service Award from the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine.
April 6, 2022

Slovis lauded by academic emergency medicine peers

Vanderbilt’s Corey Slovis, MD, has received the Lifetime Service Award from the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine

By Kristin Smart
April 6, 2022

Schaefer named Adult Solid Organ Transplant Center medical director

Heidi Schaefer, MD, has been named medical director of the Adult Solid Organ Transplant Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Matt Batcheldor
April 4, 2022

Medicare beneficiaries without low-income subsidies were less likely to fill important prescriptions, new study finds

Vanderbilt research shows that Medicare Part D beneficiaries who did not receive federal subsidies to lower their out-of-pocket costs were nearly twice as likely as others to not fill prescriptions for serious health conditions like cancer or hepatitis C treatment.
By Jake Lowary
March 31, 2022

Clip In 4 the Cure

More than 300 riders participated in the inaugural Clip In 4 the Cure, a relay-style, team cycling event that supported cancer initiatives at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 31, 2022

Vanderbilt’s Duchenne Clinic first in Tennessee to be certified

The Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Clinic at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has been recognized as a Certified Duchenne Care Center Program by the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, and is the only center in Tennessee to receive the distinction.
By Jessica Pasley
March 31, 2022

Crowe receives national award for COVID antibody research

Vanderbilt's James Crowe Jr., MD, and Michel Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, of The Rockefeller University, have been jointly awarded the 2022 Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine for “groundbreaking work” that enabled the use of human antibodies to treat COVID-19.
By Bill Snyder
March 31, 2022

Magnet site visit

Nurses at Vanderbilt Adult Ambulatory Clinics held a welcome party Monday to kick off the site visit from appraisers of the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
By Matt Batcheldor
March 31, 2022

Hallum, Osborn receive Dietetic Internship precepting awards

Madeleine Hallum, MSHS, RDN, CSG, LDN, and Cindy Osborn, RDN, LDN, are the first recipients of Allied Health’s Dietetic Internship Excellence in Precepting Awards.
By Emily Stembridge
March 30, 2022

Team helps patients battle post-COVID cognitive issues

Jane Stories is one of many COVID-19 patients still plagued by debilitating symptoms that include achy muscles, anxiety, depression, panic attacks and cognitive impairment.
By Bill Snyder and Nancy Humphrey
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