Heerman named chief of General Pediatrics

Bill Heerman, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics, has been named chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, effective May 1.

Scale measures confidence with telehealth technology

Vanderbilt’s Digital Health Care Literacy Scale uses responses to three brief items to assess whether patients or caregivers are apt to have the confidence and basic know-how required to use digital health care services such as telehealth.

VUMC to support $170 million NIH nutrition research initiative

Pediatrician at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt urges caution this Halloween

While most of 2020 has been pretty scary, Halloween doesn’t have to be, say experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Children’s Hospital experts say well-child visits remain as crucial as ever

Pediatricians at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are stressing the continued importance of well-child visit for infants, children and adolescents, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Academic Pediatric Association honors Barkin

Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, division chief of General Pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, was honored recently with the 2019 Academic Pediatric Association (APA) Research Award.