Reporter Oct 12 2012 Archive — Page 1 of 2

Laptop displaying an “Open Enrollment for 2013 Benefits” webpage with an orange “Enroll Now” button and links to learn about benefit options.
October 11, 2012

Open Enrollment allows employees to select benefits

Open Enrollment, the annual opportunity for Vanderbilt staff and faculty to elect the coverage that best suits their needs, will take place Oct. 17-31. As it was last year, this is an active enrollment, which means that all benefits-eligible employees need to make benefits elections.

By Wayne Wood
Elderly woman with short curly blonde hair wearing a pale pink blazer and pearl necklace, seated indoors.
October 11, 2012

VU mourns loss of Pediatrics icon Sell

Sarah H. Sell, M.D., professor of Pediatrics, Emerita, one of the key players in the development of the childhood vaccine to protect against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children younger than 5, died Saturday, Oct. 6. She was 99.

By Nancy Humphrey
Exterior of the Garrison Center, a modern multi-story building with curved glass façades and brick walls.
October 11, 2012

Collaborative effort focuses on pediatric traumatic brain injury

Vanderbilt’s Bill Wilkerson Center and the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences are offering new interdisciplinary outpatient programs for children ages 3 to 21 who have experienced a traumatic brain injury (TBI).

By Craig Boerner
neurons
October 11, 2012

VU scientists cheer Nobel Prize for stem cell research

Vanderbilt University scientists are cheering this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine for recognizing the discovery that mature cells can be “reprogrammed” into other cell types — a finding which they said has electrified their work.

By Bill Snyder
Five Vanderbilt Center for Medical Weight Loss staff members pose together indoors: two men in the back and three women in front.
October 11, 2012

Center for Medical Weight Loss opens at One Hundred Oaks

When patients come to Vanderbilt’s new Center for Medical Weight Loss, the first thing medical director John Cleek, M.D., wants them to understand is how their bodies use energy.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Six adults pose during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, with a woman holding oversized scissors at the center and another woman holding a large gold bow at the right; a yellow ribbon stretches across the foreground.
October 11, 2012

New affiliate clinics debut in Franklin and Springfield

A ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house was held Tuesday for the Vanderbilt Franklin Women’s Center at Williamson Medical Center (formerly known as the Franklin Women’s Center).

By Paul Govern