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December 12, 2025

How Scott Smith beat the odds to live a full life with hydrocephalus through over a dozen surgeries at Vanderbilt Health

The Tullahoma, Tennessee, native turned 60 this year — something that would’ve seemed like an impossibility when he was growing up with a neurological condition.

By Evan Dorian
December 12, 2025

New DAISY Award display serves as a tribute to compassionate nurses

In the heart of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt hospital leaders recently unveiled a new display dedicated to honoring pediatric nurses who receive a DAISY Award.

By Christina Echegaray
December 11, 2025

Bobo Tanner is a standout in both name and personalized patient care

“Dr. Bobo Tanner is one of the most exemplary doctors that I’ve had the privilege to encounter during my lifetime.”

By Jill Clendening
December 11, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Alfie and CoCo and Sinly and Pippi

December 11, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Wrigley and Stella and Light and Saaya

December 11, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Annabelle and Tink and Clover and Big Boy

December 11, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Nino and Bogen and Hugo and Molly Lou

December 11, 2025

Kellie Pearson single-handedly manages administrative tasks for the 170-person Monroe Carell pharmacy team

The Credo Award winner tells the team: “You take care of the babies; I can take care of the rest of this.”
By Leigh MacMillan
December 10, 2025

DogTalk Q&A 

Norman, Squid, and Velour get candid with Pi, an honorary member of News & Communications, when she asks very important questions about treats, sleeping, and if they play like regular dogs.
By Pi Bonvissuto
December 10, 2025

Sit, stay, heal: Meet the facility dogs of Vanderbilt Health 

More than a pet project, facility dogs can lower patient blood pressure, reduce pain perception, ease loneliness and fear and offer an important form of medicine — connection.
By Danny Bonvissuto
December 9, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Remi and Ranger and Geppetto and Goliath

December 8, 2025

Minutes to hours, to weeks, months and years … How a patient defied the odds

Born at 34 weeks gestation June 8, 2023, Sebastian Brook was admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with severe hydrocephalus and tetralogy of Fallot.
By Jessica Pasley
December 5, 2025

VUMC Pets of the Day: Bailee and Jenni, Eleanor and Yuji

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