Business Innovation

March 5, 2024

William Obremskey named executive medical director of Vanderbilt Supply Chain Services

William Obremskey, MD, MPH, MMHC, has been named executive medical director of Vanderbilt Supply Chain Services for Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

February 19, 2024

VUMC part of major step to achieving precision medicine

An analysis of genomic data from nearly 250,000 participants in the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program has identified more than 275 million previously unreported genetic variations, nearly 4 million of which have potential health consequences.

January 5, 2024

The Alliance for Genomic Discovery welcomes Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Novo Nordisk

Bristol Myers Squibb, GSK and Novo Nordisk are the newest members of the Alliance for Genomic Discovery.

December 7, 2023

William Cooper named interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics

William Cooper, MD, MPH, has been named Interim chair of the Department of Pediatrics. He will assume this role Feb. 1, 2024.  

Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, center, was presented the award by Kenneth Holroyd, MD, MBA, and Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD. (photo by Donn Jones)
November 17, 2023

Keith Obstein receives inaugural Brock Family Center Innovator of the Year Award

Keith Obstein, MD, MPH, has received the inaugural Innovator of the Year Award from the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation in recognition of his achievements in developing and commercializing a magnetic, flexible colonoscopy system with the potential to provide a safer alternative to standard colonoscopy.

Vanderbilt’s Ken Holroyd, MD, MBA, lead of the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation, speaks during the recent Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Sessions. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
September 26, 2023

Academics, entrepreneurs gather for first annual AI event

Artificial intelligence experts from industry and from Vanderbilt gathered on the VUMC campus recently for the first annual Healthcare Artificial Intelligence Sessions, or HAIS 23, sponsored by the Brock Family Center.