Voice Archive — Page 17 of 94

Smiling woman in a dark blouse stands beside a colorful mural featuring cartoon frogs, flowers, and a bee.
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
A white-and-tan dog wearing a teal harness sits among fallen autumn leaves beside a tree, with a paved path and building in the background.
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
Three Labrador retrievers—two yellow and one black—sit on a ramp wearing blue comfort-dog vests, with a plush toy between them.
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
Two dogs sit on a beige carpet indoors: a large tricolor Bernese mountain dog in the foreground and a smaller black-and-white dog with a pink collar behind it.
December 9, 2025

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

Sebastian Brook is what his parents call ‘the exception.’
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
Two dogs lie side by side on dry grass outdoors: a tri-colored hound with long ears and a black, white, and tan dog.
December 5, 2025

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