Jeff Balser Archive — Page 1 of 15

Cover of The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group’s Spring 2024 Report 27, titled “The Workforce Crisis: Innovative Approaches to Address Current Shortfalls and Prepare for a Sustainable Future,” over a layered mountain landscape at sunset.
March 20, 2024

Health care workforce shortages prompt Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report

The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group — formed in 1997 by leaders of several of the nation’s top academic health centers — studies and reports on issues of fundamental importance to improving the health care system. Its new report sets out innovations that health centers can undertake to address the ongoing health care workforce crisis.

By Paul Govern
A suited speaker gestures in front of a screen displaying hands and the words “We CARE as a TEAM.”
January 25, 2024

January Leadership Assembly — Care That Changes Our World

Ongoing initiatives to reduce acts of violence or other disrespectful behaviors toward VUMC health care workers are vital for the well-being of both our people and our patients were among the topics discussed at the Leadership Assembly.

By Holly Fletcher
Collage of colorful neon-style illustrations—including a microphone, compass-like discs, binoculars, headphones, glasses, and dumbbells—surrounding central text reading “Vision. Innovation. Economy. Culture & Intention.” Other visible text includes “Anywhere podcasts are.”, “Vanderbilt Health DNA”, “Season 4.”, and “#ListenDNA”.
October 2, 2023

New “DNA” podcast season explores how to harness change, ideas to improve business and medicine

Go to your favorite podcast channel right now to subscribe and listen to the first episode of Season 4!

By Holly Fletcher
Three panelists sit onstage during an Annual Spring Donor Celebration, with a patterned backdrop and podium visible.
May 24, 2023

Spring event honors donors’ support and generosity

Members of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Canby Robinson Society recently joined CEO and President Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, and his wife, Melinda, at Cheekwood Botanic Hall for the Spring Donor Celebration, an annual event honoring donors for their loyal support.

By Nancy Humphrey
Consuelo H. Wilkins, Griffin Rodgers, and Alvin C. Powers pose together at an indoor event, all dressed in formal attire.
May 23, 2023

Diabetes Day celebrates 50 years of achievement, spotlights current investigations

Vanderbilt Diabetes Day, an annual event hosted by the now-named Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center (DRTC). The event spotlights the work of researchers, and this year also celebrated the 50-year anniversary of the DRTC.

By Jill Clendening
Three suited men pose onstage, holding a glass award together. The center man wears a badge labeled “Phillip Gorden”; the metadata identifies the presenters as Griffin Rodgers and Jeffrey Balser.
May 19, 2023

Gorden honored with Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Lifetime Achievement Award

Phillip Gorden, MD, a Vanderbilt University undergraduate and School of Medicine alumnus, was recently honored with the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center Lifetime Achievement Award, during the recent Diabetes Day sponsored by the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center and the Irwin B. Eskind Endowed Symposium.

By Jill Clendening