(photo by Steve Green)
Bill Hance, J.D., second from left, who has led Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Office of News and Communications for a quarter century, is retiring next week. Among those who gathered at a reception Tuesday honoring Hance were, from left, Beth Fortune, vice chancellor for Public Affairs, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean and Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.