Reporter Sept 27 2013 Archive — Page 2 of 2

Portrait of Judith Warner wearing a black top indoors, with a brick wall and window behind her.
September 26, 2013

Best-selling author Warner kicks off Conte Center events

Judith Warner, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety,” will speak at Nashville’s Adventure Science Center at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 8.

By Bill Snyder
September 26, 2013

Support group cares for cancer caregivers

Physical fatigue, anxiety and emotional distress are just some of the symptoms that caregivers may experience while undertaking the hard work of helping a friend or loved one cope with cancer.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Four BEST grant application participants stand outdoors near a building entrance, arranged left to right as Kimberly Petrie, Kate Stuart, Roger Chalkley, and Kathleen Gould.
September 26, 2013

Grant broadens graduate, postdoc training programs

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop “bold and innovative approaches to broaden graduate and postdoctoral training.”

By Bill Snyder
A suited physician gestures toward a whiteboard filled with handwritten notes while two physicians in white coats take notes at a conference table.
September 26, 2013

Leadership training effort looks to military, business

When Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center director Roland Eavey, M.D., learned of the institution’s prioritized focus on training the next generation of leaders he went to two organizations he knew that were famous for doing that — the military and business schools.

By Craig Boerner
Older woman with short reddish hair wearing a black top, facing the camera against a softly blurred indoor background.
September 26, 2013

Awards honor leadership, commitment, compassion

The most recent Credo Award and Five Pillar Leader Award winners were announced Sept. 18 at the Clinical Enterprise Leadership Assembly at Langford Auditorium.

By Paul Govern
Stacks of clear laboratory Petri dishes containing blue-stained samples and handwritten markings on a work surface.
September 24, 2013

Twelfth annual Vanderbilt Research Retreat set for Oct. 4

The Vanderbilt community is invited to attend the 12th annual Research Retreat, a showcase of cutting-edge biomedical science by Vanderbilt faculty members and trainees.

By Bill Snyder