Department of Pediatrics Archive — Page 19 of 58

Portrait of a smiling woman with shoulder-length light brown hair and glasses, wearing a black top and a pearl necklace against a brown studio background.
July 7, 2023

Pediatric Heart Transplant Program medical director Debra Dodd retiring

After nearly 40 years and being involved in more than 300 lifesaving transplantations at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Debra Dodd, MD, is retiring.

By Jessica Pasley
In this 3D projected still image from a precision cut lung slice, alveolar epithelial cells are labeled green. All other cells are seen in purple.
July 5, 2023

Vanderbilt researchers envision the potential to grow new lungs

Using a four-dimensional microscope that allows them to watch a tissue putting itself together, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have achieved a rare feat in science — they have shattered a long-standing dogma about how the lung develops.

By Bill Snyder
Six adults pose beside a poster for the Tennessee Pediatric Neuromuscular Care Collaboration conference in a hospital board room. The poster includes the conference logo, event details, and two small portrait photos.
July 5, 2023

Tennessee Pediatric Neurocritical Care Collaboration holds inaugural conference

Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recently hosted the first statewide conference of the Tennessee Pediatric Neurocritical Care Collaboration.

By Christina Echegaray
Portrait of a smiling woman with short auburn hair wearing a light blue collared shirt.
July 5, 2023

Julie Lounds Taylor and Pablo Juárez appointed new co-directors of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) has announced new leadership for its University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). Julie Lounds Taylor, PhD, and Pablo Juárez, MEd, BCBA, LBA, have succeeded Elise McMillan, JD, who retired June 30.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Abstract 3D rendering of intertwined branching human tissue structures, with vivid pink and red forms layered among blue-gray strands against a blue background.
June 29, 2023

Persistent inflammatory state found in half of pediatric sepsis deaths: study

New research shows that about half of pediatric patients who died of sepsis over the past 20 years at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had evidence of an inflammatory state called persistent inflammation, immunosuppression and catabolism syndrome.

By Leigh MacMillan
Abstract ceramic mosaic of interlocking puzzle-like shapes made from small tiles in yellow, blue, orange, white, gray, purple, and black.
June 22, 2023

Mosaicism and genetic disease

Genetic mosaicism — when the body’s cells do not all have the same genetic makeup — could generate variants previously thought to be spontaneous in genetic disease, and detecting parental mosaicism could clarify recurrence risk for future children.

By Leigh MacMillan