Reporter March 15 2019 Archive
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March 14, 2019
Undiagnosed Diseases Network helps guide girl’s medical journey
On July 6, 2017, the Krauter family of Hiawatha, Kansas, received a belated 4th birthday present for their younger daughter, Mady — a diagnosis for a host of worsening neurological symptoms that they first noticed when she was 3 months old. -
March 14, 2019
Dunn named VP of Revenue Cycle Services
Heather Dunn, MBA, Associate Vice President of Revenue Cycle Services for Vanderbilt Health, has been promoted to the role of Vice President of Revenue Cycle Services. -
March 14, 2019
Study aims to predict treatment response in epilepsy patients
With the aid of $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt researchers are on a quest to develop early biomarkers of treatment outcomes for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy based on their individual brain networks. -
March 14, 2019
Flu vaccine participation rate reaches 98 percent
Ninety-eight percent of Vanderbilt University Medical Center employees have received a flu vaccine in each of the past three years, according to data collected by the Vanderbilt Occupational Health Clinic, which oversees the employee flu vaccine program. -
March 14, 2019
LifeFlight enhances in-flight patient care with Haiku app
Vanderbilt LifeFlight is known for transporting critically injured patients to Vanderbilt University Medical Center while providing emergency care with little to no medical information about its patients. -
March 14, 2019
LGBTQ Health Symposium
Molly Adele Brown, accompanied on guitar by Tim Angsten, sang at the Second Annual Southern LGBTQ Health Symposium to engage providers, students and community members throughout the region on ways to better serve sexual and gender minority patients and families. -
March 14, 2019
Cancer Center Ambassadors surpass $1 million in grants
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Ambassadors surpassed the $1 million mark with the awarding of the group’s latest research grants.