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A group of clinic coworkers pose together around a seated man in light-blue scrubs, with a printer in the foreground and balloons and photographs decorating the office.
April 6, 2017

Brumbelow’s calm nature helps keep busy clinic rolling

Taylor Brumbelow has a gift for quickly putting people at ease.

A smiling hospitalized man rests in bed with medical equipment around him while a woman leans beside him with her arm around his head.
April 6, 2017

Heart transplant program reaches major milestone

Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) performed five heart transplants in four days to place the institution among an elite group of transplant centers in the country — reaching 1,000 heart transplantations.

Six women stand together outside an ornate stone building entrance, with steps, urns, and a lantern behind them.
April 6, 2017

VUMC social workers make positive impact on patients, families

Whether it be helping families cope with the loss of a loved one, connecting homeless patients to community services or providing drug-addicted mothers with treatment options, social workers all work toward the common goal of facilitating positive change in the lives of patients and families.

Researcher in a white lab coat and blue gloves sits beside a microscope in a laboratory.
April 3, 2017

Vanderbilt investigator lands Stand Up To Cancer grant for “smart” nanoparticles cancer research

John Wilson, Ph.D., assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, has received an Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C). Wilson is among 10 early-career scientists to receive the grant awards focused on immuno-oncology.

Laura Jarosemich stands at the reception desk of Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, with the hospital name visible on the wall behind her.
March 30, 2017

VPH’s Jarosemich always ready to lend a helping hand

Laura Jarosemich, MSN, R.N., is always teaching. It’s the role she had as a nurse educator, as an instructor at Nashville State Community College and now as a nurse at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH), both to patients and fellow nurses.

A smiling woman holds a young boy outdoors; he points toward the camera.
March 30, 2017

Organ donation awareness event set for April 6

On Dec. 11, 2015, Jamie Heard woke up earlier than usual. She said she went through her normal routine, which included morning prayers.