Reporter Sept 24 2021 Archive — Page 1 of 1

Evan Campa and Eben Cathey, along with their children, Mae and Reuben, are helping to raise funds to create an ALS research program at VUMC.
September 23, 2021

Local family shines in campaign to establish ALS research program

Evan Campa and her family are at the forefront of a campaign to establish an ALS basic science research program at Vanderbilt.

By Paul Govern
The team studying smell and taste loss associated with COVID-19 includes, from left, Rakesh Chandra, MD, Justin Turner, MD, Timothy Trone, MD, and Nikita Chapurin, MD, MHS.
September 23, 2021

Study tracks smell, taste loss associated with COVID

Vanderbilt researchers are studying ways to better evaluate and predict who is at risk of persistent smell and taste loss after COVID-19 infection.

By Emily Stembridge
As part of International Housekeepers & Environmental Services Week, VUMC honored workers like Lakeshia Fletcher, shown here wiping down tables in the Café at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, who have been on the front lines during the pandemic to keep facilities clean and safe.
September 23, 2021

Clean and safe

VUMC recently honored workers who have been on the front lines during the pandemic to keep facilities clean and safe.

By VUMC News and Communications
September 23, 2021

Clinical trial tests ATR inhibitor in difficult-to-treat cancers

By Doug Campbell
Janna Landsperger, MSN, RN, ACNP, seated, helps conduct the ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp from a conference room in Medical Center North. Presenting on screen is Allison Wynes, a nurse practitioner at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
September 23, 2021

‘Boot Camp’ helps sharpen critical care skills

About 250 nurse practitioners and physician associates nationwide gathered over Zoom recently for Vanderbilt’s annual ACNP/PA Critical Care Boot Camp.

By Matt Batcheldor
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, has been honored for her contributions to the field of heart failure.
September 23, 2021

Stevenson receives HFSA Lifetime Achievement Award

Vanderbilt’s Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, has received  the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Heart Failure Society of America.

By Matt Batcheldor