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December 20, 2012

Study examines ACA’s impact on uncompensated care

By VUMC News and Communications
December 13, 2012

Patients, families at heart of new ‘Promise’ campaign

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is taking its commitment to a patient-centered experience to a new level through the Vanderbilt Patient and Family Promise, a six-point commitment statement being rolled out publicly in February.

By Nancy Humphrey
December 13, 2012

Quality, innovation key to VUMC’s fiscal health: Balser

As medical centers across the country respond to declining revenue streams and a federal budget crisis, focusing on the quality of the patient experience becomes ever more important.

By Paul Govern
December 13, 2012

CDC selects VU to lead national adverse vaccine event reviews

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to lead a consortium of top national experts in vaccine safety in performing timely reviews of adverse vaccine events.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 13, 2012

New Neurology residency program director brings global perspective

After a decade of growth in the Department of Neurology’s residency program, Heather Koons, M.D., is stepping into the role of program director and brings a uniquely international perspective.

By VUMC News and Communications
December 6, 2012

Room’s lead-lined walls protect patients, caregivers

Ten-year-old Madison Monday holds a small stuffed brown bear tightly under her arm as she receives an innovative therapy for neuroblastoma, a cancer that develops from nerve tissue.

By Christina Echegaray
December 6, 2012

Research becomes personal for Delpire

Eric Delpire, Ph.D., professor of Anesthesiology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and director of the Anesthesiology Basic Science Research Division, has spent the past 15 years developing genetically altered mice for use in scientific research, and he now knows the value of his research in a very personal way.
By Jill Clendening
December 6, 2012

Award honors strong bonds between VU, Nashville CARES

Vanderbilt University has been named to receive the Nashville CARES Corporate Partner Award.
By VUMC News and Communications
December 6, 2012

Research training program seeks global impact

For Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences, “diversity” means more than “international.”
By Bill Snyder
November 29, 2012

Record number elected AAAS fellows

Seventeen members of Vanderbilt University’s faculty have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this year.
By Bill Snyder
November 29, 2012

Polarity protein suppresses tumor growth, invasion

The machinery that builds the characteristic shape of epithelial cells suppresses breast cancer formation and metastasis in a mouse model.
By Leigh MacMillan
November 29, 2012

Late ED nurse’s book celebrates cultural diversity

It was, everyone agreed, a horrific end to a beautiful life.
By Wayne Wood
November 29, 2012

Family’s experience spurs creation of fellowship

Carol Ann Gavin became critically ill on Super Bowl Sunday in 2010 while vacationing in Florida. But after two surgeries for a bowel obstruction at a Florida hospital, her husband, Charles Gavin III, asked that she be flown home to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he knew she would get unequaled health care at one of finest medical centers in the country.
By Nancy Humphrey
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