Reporter Jan 22 2016

January 21, 2016

Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic debuts

Vanderbilt University Medical Center officials cut the ribbon at Tuesday’s open house celebrating the debut of Vanderbilt Health’s new Belle Meade Walk-In Clinic.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2016

Vanderbilt’s Powers named president-elect of ADA

Alvin Powers, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Diabetes Center, has been named president-elect, Medicine and Science, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for 2016.

By Bill Snyder
January 21, 2016

University of Michigan’s Little set for next Discovery Lecture

Roderick Little, Ph.D., a statistician with expertise in the analysis of data sets with missing values, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Jan. 28.

By Leigh MacMillan
January 21, 2016

Angelaki lecture

Dora Angelaki, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine, explored a computational perspective on autism at her recent Flexner Discovery Lecture.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2016

VU investigators use magnetism to help isolate malaria biomarker

Vanderbilt investigators have developed a way to detect malaria that is faster and more sensitive than current clinical methods — a development that has the potential to make malaria detection significantly less expensive and more stable.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2016

McLaughlin named a reviewing editor for neuroscience journal

BethAnn McLaughlin, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been invited to serve as a reviewing editor for the Journal of Neuroscience, the flagship publication of the Society of Neuroscience, one of the world’s largest scientific societies.

By Bill Snyder
January 21, 2016

Ayre named Patient Flow Center associate director

Christin Ayre, MSN, R.N., has been named the associate director of the Vanderbilt Patient Flow Center, effective Feb. 1.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 21, 2016

Allstate support

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt will expand its teen motor vehicle safety program, “Be in the Zone — Turn off Your Phone,” with the help of a $60,000 award from the Allstate Foundation.
By VUMC News and Communications
January 18, 2016

Get to know tax form 1095-C: Coming soon to your mailbox

Expect to see a new form that will be mailed to your home address this January. Form 1095-C reports important health insurance information you’ll need when completing your tax return.
By VUMC News and Communications
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