Employee Spotlight

May 2, 2023

VUMC surgical tech cheers on daughter Grace West on NBC’s “The Voice”

Daryl Rembinski’s family moved to Nashville from Detroit to support Grace’s singing career

By Nancy Humphrey
April 18, 2023

Generous donation from VUMC nurse anesthetists lifts up Hardship Fund

The recent contribution brought to more than $14,000 the total raised by CRNAs at Vanderbilt in the past few years for the fund

By Jill Clendening
Krista Kuhnert-Gainer, ACNP, shows off the sign her colleagues made to celebrate her reaching 20,000 bone marrow biopsies performed.
February 9, 2023

‘Biopsy Queen’ reaches milestone number of procedures

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Krista Kuhnert-Gainer, ACNP has performed more than 20,000 bone marrow biopsies since 1996.

By Tom Wilemon
February 2, 2023

Radiology’s Brent Savoie turns radiological imagery into lavish dreamscapes

A world that blends the intricacies of marine life and human form: neuroanatomy that looks like coral, the body reimagined as a jellyfish, or an “X-ray aquarium.”

By Jill Clendening
January 31, 2023

Feb. 3 is a special day to honor women physicians. Allie Bell created her own greeting cards for the occasion.

The birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman physician, is observed as National Women Physician Day

By Jill Clendening
November 15, 2022

As a medical student, Joseph Fusco was diagnosed with cancer. That experience influences the way he treats his young patients every day.

He gave up baseball to become a surgeon. That decision may have saved his life.

By Jessica Pasley
October 26, 2022

Lori Anne Parker-Danley used pandemic time to learn quilting and create her “pandemic quilt”

Improv quilting stitched together her hours during the pandemic
By Jill Clendening
September 29, 2022

Suzie Brown, singer-songwriter, meet Dr. Suzanne Brown Sacks, transplant cardiologist

Her twin passions for music and for medicine brought her to Nashville and to VUMC
By Matt Batcheldor
June 14, 2022

Kathleen Gallagher is a surgical resident and former combat medic. She traveled to Ukraine to help train emergency response teams.

"With my background in combat medicine, it felt like there was something I could actually do to help.”
By Nancy Humphrey
June 2, 2022

Sister surgeons share a winding road that led to VUMC

From Canada to Florida to VUMC, the "Gillaspie Girls" are building careers after "falling in love with surgery."
By Jill Clendening
May 4, 2022

Pies in the face mark the end of the first round of blood donation challenge. Your donation may determine who gets the next pie.

Shon Dwyer smooshed a pie into the face of Tom Nantais. Mary Pawlikowski smooshed a pie into the face of Meg Rush. Who's next?
By Wayne Wood
May 4, 2022

Collection of “Star Wars” Legos makes sure the force stays with child psychiatrist Yasas Tanguturi

Why are they at his office? "One, I ran out of space, and two, my wife doesn’t want them at home.”
By Jessica Pasley
April 15, 2022

Music therapy comes to Palliative Care Unit

“Music opens many new perspectives and pathways that patients otherwise would not have."
By Emily Stembridge
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