Employee Spotlight

November 1, 2023

A stroke left Kate Adamson trapped in her body, unable to communicate. Here’s how she recovered and became a VUMC social worker.

“You can see and hear everything around you, but you appear dead. It is like being locked in a glass coffin.”

By Bill Snyder
September 27, 2023

Being treated for childhood cancer set Jason Schwartz on the path to his life’s work: treating childhood cancer

Cancer at the age of 13 forced him to give up his dream of professional football. While undergoing treatment, he found a new dream.

By Jessica Pasley
August 4, 2023

The man at the music festival had been beaten unconscious. Medical assistant Chase Brown may have saved his life.

“If that was my little brother or one of my friends, I would hope someone would help them.”

By Jessica Pasley
July 7, 2023

VUMC Rheumatologist Jim Gore began writing a symphony 20 years ago. It just had its debut.

The movement “Red Morn on Rolling Hills” was selected for performance by the Tennessee Youth Symphony

By Nancy Humphrey
June 26, 2023

Irish step dancing and science share equal billing in Maureen Gannon’s world

She is known for her diabetes research. She’s also pretty proud of her polished lift, a high, straight-legged kick that shows both flexibility and gracefulness.

By Jill Clendening
May 4, 2023

Mother and daughter nurses work together in Labor and Delivery

Some people call Chelsea Foster, BSN, RN, and her mom Lisa Harris, RN, the Dream Team

By Matt Batcheldor
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 Bill Snyder
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 Bill Snyder
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 Bill Snyder
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
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