Reporter November 2023

November 8, 2023

Vanderbilt and Duke awarded Moore Foundation Grant to improve oversight of AI technology in health care systems

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Duke University School of Medicine have been awarded a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the project “Measuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) Maturity in Healthcare Organizations.”

By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli

November 8, 2023

Dandan Liu to lead the Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians

Vanderbilt’s Dandan Liu, PhD, has been elected president of the Association of Clinical and Translational Statisticians.

By Paul Govern

November 8, 2023

Flu season starting late but expected to increase for the holidays

The current flu season has started later and more gradually than last year although cases are expected to begin increasing in November before falling off in March.

By Courtney Graetzer

November 7, 2023

Vanderbilt hospitals land high Leapfrog safety grades

Three Vanderbilt hospitals have been recognized by the Leapfrog group as among the safest in the United States.

Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital (VBH) and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) all received a fall 2023 safety grade of “A.”

By VUMC News and Communications

November 6, 2023

Powers receives prestigious Veterans Affairs Middleton Award

Alvin C. Powers, MD, Joe C. Davis Professor of Biologic Science and professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, has received the 2023 William S. Middleton Award, the highest honor awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Service.

By Jill Clendening

November 6, 2023

Children’s antibodies highly potent against COVID-19: study

Reporting Nov. 6 in Cell Reports Medicine, Ivelin Georgiev, PhD, and colleagues demonstrated that antibodies isolated from children’s blood samples displayed high levels of neutralization and potency against variants of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV-2, even when the children had not previously been exposed to or vaccinated against those variants.

By Bill Snyder