Employee Spotlight Archive — Page 3 of 14

Modern multi-story campus buildings surrounding landscaped gardens, pedestrian paths, and a roadway under a partly cloudy sky.
September 24, 2024

Numerous activities mark VUMC’s observance for advanced practice providers

From Sept. 23-27, VUMC is observing Advanced Practice Providers week with various activities; read profiles of two of these dedicated professionals

By Christina Echegaray
Photo illustration combining a woman wearing a cervical neck brace, a horse and rider in an indoor arena, a neck CT scan, an electrocardiogram tracing, and an X-ray of the cervical spine held by gloved hands. The brace is labeled “MIAMI J.”
September 19, 2024

One year ago, VUMC nurse Susie Stephens was thrown from a horse and suffered a broken neck. The story of her injury, her recovery — and the day she got back on the horse.

“I wake up every day and wonder why I didn’t die.”

By Wayne Wood
Smiling man seated in a spacecraft wearing a blue flight suit labeled “E. JAHAN,” with blurred crew members in the background.
August 26, 2024

Eiman Jahangir on doing a plank without gravity, and seeing Earth’s curvature, colors and ‘the darkness we never appreciate’

Eiman Jahangir joins a select group of about 700 people who have gone to space. Listen to him talk about the experience, why he wants this experience to be more widely available, and what he’s thinking about being back in clinic on Sept. 3.

By Matt Batcheldor
Rischelle Jenkins poses beside a reception desk in front of a wall displaying the Vanderbilt Department of Biomedical Informatics logo.
July 17, 2024

Rischelle Jenkins provides the steady center of Biomedical Informatics

Over her two decades in the department, Jenkins has worked alongside the program’s educational leadership, managing student recruitment and enrollment, organizing critical data for DBMI’s National Library of Medicine grant, budgeting, overseeing weekly informatics seminars and planning social activities for students.

By Mia Garchitorena-Scancarelli
David Orth and Linda D’Errico pose together in their home pottery studio, surrounded by shelves of ceramic vessels and pottery tools, with several glazed pieces on the worktable.
July 3, 2024

Couple’s legacy of giving results in transformative change in endocrinology at Vanderbilt

“As I worked at Vanderbilt, I became so attached to the division, and when I had the ability to do it, I wanted to give back.”

By Jill Clendening
Three anesthesia professionals pose in a hospital operating room beside monitors and medical equipment: a man on the left, a woman in the center wearing blue scrubs and a patterned surgical cap, and a man on the right wearing blue scrubs and a patterned cap.
June 5, 2024

Anesthesia is in this family’s blood: father, two children all working as nurse anesthetists at Vanderbilt

Brian Reid, CRNA, used to pack Chris and Mary’s lunches before school. Now they all work together in VUMC’s Department of Anesthesiology.

By Erin Wides