Alexander Gelbard

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March 11, 2025

Thinking outside the (voice) box: VUMC surgeons have all the pieces in place for the complex puzzle of laryngeal transplantation 

Only a few laryngeal transplants have been successfully performed in the United States. Now, surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are ready for their first patient.

By Evan Dorian
(file photo by Anne Rayner)
December 5, 2024

VUMC to study effect of breathing tube size on breathing, speaking, swallowing

Approximately 1% of the U.S. population — 2 million to 3 million adults — experience critical illness requiring the placement of a breathing tube each year.

By Nancy Humphrey
November 1, 2022

Patient Experience awards honor excellence of clinical teams and individual clinicians

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is recognizing 581 clinicians and 148 clinical areas for receiving high marks from patients, earning Excellence in Patient Experience awards for fiscal year 2022.

By Jill Clendening
Vanderbilt’s Complex Airway Center team helped patient Shirley Beal overcome a serious complication following her bout with COVID-19.
March 24, 2022

Complex Airway Center team helps patient breathe easier

Vanderbilt Otolaryngology’s Complex Airway Center team helped patient Shirley Beal recover from a serious complication that arose after she was treated for COVID-19.

By Emily Stembridge
November 4, 2021

Lecture explores disease that causes windpipe narrowing

Vanderbilt’s Alexander Gelbard, MD, recently detailed the research he and his team completed to better understand idiopathic subglottic stenosis, a rare disease that causes narrowing of the windpipe.

By Emily Stembridge
Margaret Taylor, DNP, CNM, received more than 30 patient survey responses and earned a perfect 100 score on those surveys during fiscal year 2021.
October 13, 2021

Patient Experience awards honor service excellence

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is recognizing 485 clinicians and 132 clinical areas for receiving high marks from patients, earning Excellence in Patient Experience awards for fiscal year 2021.

By Jill Clendening
April 29, 2021

Early intervention eases laryngeal injury healing

Alexander Gelbard, MD, associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, reported in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery that early intervention treatment for acute laryngeal injury after intubation may prevent tracheostomy dependence and the need for additional surgical procedures.
By Emily Stembridge
February 27, 2020

Gelbard’s airway disease efforts honored by Triological Society

Alexander Gelbard, MD, associate professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, was recently awarded The Edmund Prince Fowler Award for his candidate thesis to the Triological Society.
By Kelsey Herbers
February 6, 2020

Medical students’ research highlighted at symposium

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) Medical Scholars Research Symposium was held Feb. 3 and highlighted the work of eight medical students who spent the 2018-2019 academic year immersed in research under the guidance of faculty mentors.
By Kathy Whitney
June 13, 2019

Study seeks to expand treatment options for rare airway disease

Armed with $1.2 million in funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are searching to understand the cause of a rare airway disease in hopes of developing better treatments.
By Kelsey Herbers
February 8, 2018

Event showcases REDCap’s data management versatility

Fourteen years after it was launched, REDCap, Vanderbilt University’s research data management tool, has transformed clinical and translational studies around the globe.
By Bill Snyder
May 7, 2015

Grant spurs study of rare breathing condition in women

A research team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been approved for a $2.7 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study idiopathic subglottic stenosis (iSGS), a rare condition that inexplicably causes middle-aged women to struggle to breathe.
By Matt Batcheldor
October 4, 2013

New Medical Faculty 2013

See a complete list of new School of Medicine faculty for 2013.
By VUMC News and Communications
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