Department of Surgery Archive — Page 2 of 15
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July 9, 2025
VUMC’s Section of Surgical Sciences and LG forge collaboration on AI initiatives for medical needs
The collaboration will center on the Molecular AI Initiative’s pioneering platform, which uses AI-driven 3D spatial multimodal research to build predictive, high-fidelity models of a patient’s disease at the molecular level. -
July 2, 2025
Scientific advances helping to increase the number of available organs for transplantation
These advances include emerging techniques of rehabilitating organs that would once have been discarded as unusable. -
June 26, 2025
Lower health literacy increases mortality risk for cancer patients
Patients who had high health literacy on the screening lived 9.4 months longer compared to those with low health literacy. -
June 18, 2025
Transplant patient’s long journey brings her from the Aloha State to the Volunteer State
She was turned down by multiple transplant centers between Honolulu and Nashville, deemed too sick, before the Vanderbilt Lung Transplant Program accepted her as a patient. -
June 17, 2025
Drug shows safety, efficacy for precancerous stomach lesions
The drug also showed promise that it could be the first therapeutic intervention against precancerous lesions in the stomach. -
June 17, 2025
Joseph Magliocca elected to transplantation network board
The OPTN is a unique public-private partnership that links all professionals involved in the U.S. donation and transplantation system. -
June 9, 2025
Presurgery consults with patients using 3D models improve shared decision-making and reduce anxiety
The models allowed patients to easily distinguish the ascending colon from the sigmoid colon, along with other parts of the digestive system.