Vanderbilt University Medical Center‘s vice chancellor for Health Affairs, Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., has announced the creation of the Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair to be held by Pat Levitt, Ph.D., the director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

A Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) LifeFlight helicopter touched down at Arnold Engineering Development Center‘s (AEDC) airfield recently as part of a training effort to conduct airborne emergency evacuation familiarization training.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has achieved designation as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., has been named the 2006 recipient of the American Heart Association‘s Basic Science Research Award.

Parents of young children with autism need cutting-edge information and high-quality support. Vanderbilt Kennedy TRIAD (Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders) has established a new program for parents of young children who have, or are suspected of having, an autism spectrum disorder.

Providing charity care to Middle Tennessee‘s most financially vulnerable individuals is an expensive proposition √≥ especially so for a large, comprehensive health care institution such as Vanderbilt University Medical Center, which, in addition to seeing the most patients, also sees the sickest.

Delays in the shipment of flu vaccine for children may leave them open to getting the flu if the season starts early.