Employee Spotlight Archive — Page 5 of 14

Dr. Joseph Fusco poses in a navy suit and blue tie in an outdoor hospital courtyard, with benches, greenery, and a koi pond area behind him.
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.

Lori Anne Parker-Danley stands with her arms crossed in front of a colorful abstract quilt made of vertical fabric strips and geometric shapes.
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

Suzie Brown, second from right, performs at the Back Corner in Nashville on Aug. 16, 2019. Other band members, from left to right: Sarah Aili, Scot Sax, and Billy Harvey.
October 13, 2022

Cardiologist Brown finds inspiration through music

Vanderbilt’s Suzanne Brown Sacks, MD, is both a transplant cardiologist and an accomplished singer/songwriter.

Suzie Brown sings while playing acoustic guitar at center stage, joined by three band members performing electric guitar and vocals under green stage lighting.
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

Six smiling young adults pose together indoors; two wear glasses, and one person has eyeglasses resting on their head.
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.”

Two masked surgeons in blue scrubs and colorful surgical caps pose with arms crossed in an operating room beneath surgical lights.
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.”