Reporter Oct 12 2012 Archive

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
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
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
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 VUMC News and Communications
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