October 29, 2015

Cleveland Clinic’s Hazen set for Oates Lectureship on Nov. 5

Stanley Hazen, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, will present the ninth annual Meredith S. and John A. Oates Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology on Nov. 5.

By Bill Snyder

October 29, 2015

Baum elected VP of Endocrine Society

Howard Baum, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, has been elected vice president (physician-in-practice) of The Endocrine Society.

By Kathy Whitney

October 29, 2015

War trauma focus of Nov. 2 lecture

Kaz de Jong, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist with Doctors Without Borders, will discuss the mental health challenges of caring for people traumatized by war during a special lecture at the Vanderbilt Nursing Annex on Monday, Nov. 2.

By Bill Snyder

October 29, 2015

Photo: value-based care seminar

Michael Porter, Ph.D., MBA, of Harvard Business School, a leading authority on organizational strategy, spoke recently at the Owen Graduate School of Management during the opening session of the First Annual Value-based Health Care Delivery Seminar.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 29, 2015

ICU Recovery Center helps ease burden of critical illness

Quinton Smith doesn’t remember much of what happened one Sunday evening last March. He was disoriented, unable to stand and could not even recognize his girlfriend’s face after she returned home from work.

By VUMC News and Communications

October 29, 2015

Interventions benefit disruptive behavior in children: review

Children with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs), such as conduct disorder, are most likely to benefit from psychosocial interventions that include a parental component alone or in combination with other interventions, according to a newly published systematic review by Vanderbilt researchers.

By Christina Echegaray