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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
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
Jane Storie is one of many patients who are experiencing cognitive impairment after recovering from COVID-19. The long-term complication is also impacting her family — husband, James, daughter, Emily, and son, Andrew.
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
VUMC’s telehealth efforts transformed the way health care is provided, both during the pandemic and beyond.
March 30, 2022

Horst named medical director for telehealth at VUMC

Sara Horst, MD, MPH, has been named the new medical director for Telehealth Ambulatory Services for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Jill Clendening
An initiative at VUMC is helping to reduce automated alerts that are often triggered in the electronic health record.
March 24, 2022

VUMC Clickbusters program helps reduce EHR alerts

Vanderbilt’s Clickbusters program is helping to stem alert fatigue associated with the Medical Center’s clinical IT system.

By Paul Govern
March 24, 2022

VUMC’s DeBaun elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society

Vanderbilt's Michael DeBaun, MD, MS, MPH, has been elected president-elect of the American Pediatric Society.
By Nancy Humphrey
March 24, 2022

High blood pressure genes improve heart surgery survival in children

Vanderbilt researchers have found that children with a genetic makeup that predicts high blood pressure as adults are more likely to survive congenital heart defect repair surgery.
By Leigh MacMillan
March 24, 2022

Complex Airway Center team helps patient breathe easier

Vanderbilt Otolaryngology’s Complex Airway Center team helped patient Shirley Beal recover from a serious complication that arose after she was treated for COVID-19.
By Emily Stembridge
March 17, 2022

Adult clinics prepare for upcoming site visit from Magnet appraisers

Nurses in Vanderbilt Adult Ambulatory Clinics are busy preparing for a site visit from appraisers of the American Nurses Credentialing Center as part of the Fourth Magnet Designation process.
By Matt Batcheldor
March 17, 2022

VUMC donates medical supplies bound for Ukraine

Vanderbilt University Medical Center responded to pleas for help from Ukrainian health officials by donating several tons of medical supplies to be shipped to Ukraine in coming days.
By Wayne Wood
March 17, 2022

ECMO fellowship program provides lifesaving training

Vanderbilt's extracorporeal life support fellowship gives new doctors two years of hands-on experience with a lifesaving critical care tool, one that has only become more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Matt Batcheldor
March 16, 2022

Teamwork returns man with severe post-COVID complications to his life

A multidisciplinary team at Vanderbilt helped José Ontiveros cope with a long list of severe complications arising from his COVID-19i infection.
By Jill Clendening
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