Department of Pediatrics
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March 10, 2021
Hockey Fights Cancer skates on to support Children’s Hospital
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt patient Lochlin Morris was named Champ of the Game at the Nashville Predators’ Hockey Fights Cancer game on Saturday, March 6. Beginning last season, each home game features a Children’s Hospital patient on the jumbotron as a Vanderbilt Health Champ of the Game. -
March 9, 2021
Pediatric emergency visits, hospitalizations down sharply during pandemic: study
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, children’s hospitals across the United States have seen signification reductions in the number of children being treated for common pediatric illnesses like asthma and pneumonia, according to a new multicenter study led by Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. -
March 4, 2021
Probiotic protection
A probiotic factor given early in life to mice prevented intestinal inflammation in adulthood, providing a rationale for probiotic intervention in individuals at high risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease. -
March 4, 2021
Clinic helps prepare young HIV patients for adult care
Adolescents and young adults living with HIV in Middle Tennessee are being ushered into adult care through a special transition clinic that focuses on adult skill-building and individualized therapy and discussions. -
February 23, 2021
Calcification after severe injury
Vanderbilt researchers have linked bone-related complications of severely injured patients — findings that could help minimize these complications. -
February 11, 2021
Carells to endow chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Julie Carell Stadler, Kathryn Carell Brown and Edie Carell Johnson have made a commitment to endow a new chair in Pediatric Infectious Diseases research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The inaugural chair holder of the Edie Carell Johnson Chair in Pediatrics will be announced this spring. -
February 11, 2021
Belcher named to newspaper’s list of 40 under 40
Ryan Belcher, MD, assistant professor Pediatric Otolaryngology at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, has been named by Nashville Business Journal to the 2021 class of 40 under 40.