Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation Archive — Page 1 of 1

Kenneth Holroyd, MD, and Michael McCann, MD, MBA, stand in front of a classroom chalkboard; McCann holds a star-shaped Innovator of the Year award.
October 13, 2026

Michael McCann named Brock Family Center’s 2026 Innovator of the Year

A Hospital Medicine program developed by Michael McCann and colleagues helps patients with multiple comorbidities reduce their hospital stays. It’s now being offered to other hospitals through a commercial spinoff called Juliana.  

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September 23, 2026

Tampa Bay Wave collaborates with Vanderbilt Health to launch dual-region HealthTech|X accelerator for behavioral health and addiction startups

Collaboration pairs Tampa Bay and Nashville’s health care ecosystems, giving founders direct access to investors, researchers, clinicians and licensing opportunities.

Russelle Bradbury, Daniel Fabbri, PhD, Ken Holroyd, MD, MBA, and Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, stand together indoors; Fabbri holds a star-shaped award.
March 25, 2026

Brock Innovator of the Year lecture: Daniel Fabbri wants to speed research and patient care  

The Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation sponsors campus lectures to celebrate award winners.

(photo by Donn Jones)
October 2, 2025

Symposium explores AI’s role in health care

Speakers covered topics ranging from safeguarding AI data and the ethics of harmful chatbot responses to entrepreneurial insights from company founders using AI to transform health care.

Daniel Fabbri, PhD, spoke about his entrepreneurial journey from graduate studies to founding a successful health care technology company. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 3, 2024

Faculty member Daniel Fabbri describes entrepreneurial journey

The talk provided insights into the challenges and rewards of commercializing academic research.

An outstretched hand supports a glowing light-bulb graphic divided into a brain and a smooth bulb shape, against a dark blue bokeh background.
April 26, 2024

Vanderbilt’s Innovation Ambassadors help their colleagues change the world

Within the intellectual powerhouse that is Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center thrives a group of doctors, engineers, computer scientists and others who also are visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs.