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April 12, 2018

Panel explores impact of anti-LGBT religious freedom laws on academic medical centers

Last week, the Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences hosted a Diversity Grand Rounds panel addressing the impact of anti-LGBT religious freedom laws on academic medical centers, professional organizations and their members.

By VUMC News and Communications
April 5, 2018

Karp to succeed Beauchamp as Surgical Section leader

After successfully leading Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Section of Surgical Sciences and serving as the Medical Center’s Surgeon-in-Chief since 2001, R. Daniel Beauchamp, MD, the John Clinton Foshee Distinguished Professor of Surgery, is stepping down. Beauchamp will be succeeded in this role by Seth Karp, MD, H. William Scott Jr. Professor and chair of the Department of Surgery and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.

By John Howser
April 5, 2018

Change positions Department of Urologic Surgery for sustained growth

Beginning July 1, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Urologic Surgery, which is currently housed within the Medical Center’s Section of Surgical Sciences, will become an independent department.

By John Howser
April 5, 2018

Nashville Biosciences created to leverage wealth of data

Officials with Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary, Nashville Biosciences, to harness the power of its extensive genomic and bioinformatics resources to advance drug and diagnostics discovery and development.

By Bill Snyder
April 5, 2018

Study reveals frogs bouncing back in Panama

A new study reports that some Central American frog species are recovering from a deadly fungal epidemic, perhaps because they have better defenses against the pathogen.

By Leigh MacMillan
March 29, 2018

Family’s transplant journey a study in overcoming barriers

There are no words for liver transplantation in Somalian refugee Aniso Haji’s native language.

By Jessica Pasley
March 29, 2018

Becker driven to help improve quality of patients’ lives

Jonathan Becker, DO, the medical director overseeing Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital’s electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) program, spends a fair amount of time explaining to patients what electroconvulsive therapy is not.
By Nancy Humphrey
March 29, 2018

Design competition aims to assist laryngectomy patients

The first annual LaryHacks, a competition to design innovative devices, apps or methods to assist laryngectomy patients who have had their voice boxes removed, has been set for Thursday, April 12, 5 to 8 p.m., in the Wond’ry, 2414 Highland Ave. in the Vanderbilt University Engineering and Science building.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 29, 2018

Otten named senior director of Space and Facilities Planning

Bobby Otten has been named senior director of Space and Facilities Planning. In this new role, Otten will oversee ongoing construction projects at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, planning of new construction and renovation of existing Medical Center space.
By Wayne Wood
March 22, 2018

Dierks Bentley receives first star on Children’s Hospital’s “Walk of Champions”

Multi-platinum entertainer and longtime supporter of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Dierks Bentley recently received the first star on the hospital’s newly created “Walk of Champions,” presented by Live Nation.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 22, 2018

Novel research explores way to restore silenced voices

A 2011 cicada swarm is leading to transinstitutional research at the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to develop a surgical planning tool to help restore speech for people with vocal fold paralysis.
By Matt Batcheldor and Liz Entman
March 22, 2018

Match Day reveals residency locations for VUSM students

Fourth-year medical students Katie DesPrez and Joe Wick met at orientation during their first year at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
By Kathy Whitney
March 22, 2018

Study tracks protein’s role in stem cell function

MCL-1 is a member of the BCL-2 family of proteins important for blocking apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Many types of cancer cells escape the body’s effort to kill them by overexpressing MCL-1.
By Bill Snyder