Reporter Aug 13 2021

Mariana Byndloss, DVM, PhD, Woongjae Yoo, PhD, and colleagues are studying how a high-fat diet may contribute to heart disease. (Photo taken prior to revised masking guidelines.)
August 12, 2021

Study reveals missing link between high-fat diet, microbiota and heart disease

A high-fat diet disrupts the biology of the gut’s inner lining and its microbial communities — and promotes the production of a metabolite that may contribute to heart disease, according to a study published Aug. 13 in the journal Science.

By Leigh MacMillan
August 12, 2021

VUMC expands programming in effort to help pregnant and postpartum women, infants in opioid crisis

A newly created program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is aiming to address the increasing toll the opioid crisis is having on pregnant and postpartum women and their infants.

By Jessica Pasley
The Structural Heart and Valve Center team has recently completed multiple groundbreaking transcatheter clinical trial procedures treating severe regurgitation of the mitral and tricuspid valves.
August 12, 2021

Structural Heart and Valve Center reaches procedure milestones

The Structural Heart and Valve Center at Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute (VHVI) has recently completed multiple groundbreaking transcatheter clinical trial procedures treating severe regurgitation of the mitral and tricuspid valves, a continuation of a decade of research that is revolutionizing the treatment of these conditions.

By Matt Batcheldor
August 12, 2021

Certain drug exposures correlate with reduced COVID severity: study

Analyzing electronic health records (EHR) of 9,748 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, Cosmin Bejan, PhD, Elizabeth Phillips, MD, and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center asked whether COVID disease severity correlated with any drugs that happened to be taken by these patients in the months leading up to their diagnosis.

By Paul Govern
August 12, 2021

VSP accredited as a Rare Disease Pharmacy Center of Excellence

Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy (VSP) has received accreditation from the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC) as a Rare Disease Pharmacy Center of Excellence.

By Emily Stembridge
August 12, 2021

Hasselblad chosen for evidence-based practice fellowship

Michele Hasselblad, DNP, RN, NE-BC, vice president of Adult Ambulatory Nursing, has been chosen for an inaugural cohort of postdoctoral fellows from the Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare at The Ohio State University.

By Matt Batcheldor
August 11, 2021

Documents submitted for Magnet designation process

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has completed its four required Magnet documents and submitted them to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a major milestone in its fourth Magnet designation process.
By Matt Batcheldor
August 11, 2021

Vega selected as 2021 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

Paige Vega, a PhD student in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the 2021 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar.
By Bill Snyder
August 11, 2021

Radiology Hosts DEI Week, Announces $1 Million Endowment

The Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences recently hosted its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Week, featuring in-person and livestreamed presentations and panel discussions focused on the relationship between medicine and DEI. Leaders from Vanderbilt University, Yale University, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Maryland and several other health care systems led the nuanced discussions.
By VUMC News and Communications
August 11, 2021

VUMC Neurology pioneer Anthony Kilroy mourned

Anthony W. Kilroy, MD, adjunct associate professor of Pediatrics, died July 25. He was 86.
By VUMC News and Communications
August 11, 2021

Family pediatricians should be first line of defense for COVID concerns

As the more contagious delta variant of COVID-19 spreads, impacting children, pediatricians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt say there are steps parents can take to help keep their children safe.
By Jessica Pasley
August 11, 2021

Aronoff departing VUMC to become chair of the Department of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine

David Aronoff, MD, Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, is departing Vanderbilt University Medical Center to become chair of the Department of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine.
By Doug Campbell
August 10, 2021

Shared antibodies may push COVID-19 variants: VUMC study

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found that people recovering from COVID-19 and those vaccinated against the causative virus, SARS-CoV-2, produce identical clones, or groups, of antibody-producing white blood cells.
By Bill Snyder
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