Department of Surgery Archive
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March 11, 2025
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers to lead AI-powered cancer workshop at AACR 2025
VUMC's session will provide a deep dive into how AI-driven 3D spatial molecular and multimodal approaches are transforming the landscape of oncology research. -
March 7, 2025
Vanderbilt Health hosts intensive trauma course for military medical personnel
The course provides training for military medical personnel working in deployed environments, military treatment facilities, and Level 1 trauma treatment facilities. -
March 4, 2025
Rare pancreas diagnosis, rare treatment: Surgeons perform robotic Whipple procedure for pediatric patient
The milestone surgery resulted from collaboration and exemplifies a generational shift taking place in pediatric surgery. -
January 17, 2025
Vanderbilt University Hospital reverified as Level 1 adult trauma center
Trauma patients come to VUH from a region covering 80,000 square miles, and approximately 9,400 acute trauma patients are treated at the hospital annually. -
January 16, 2025
Kidney transplant leader Robert Richie is mourned
He helped build one of the leading kidney transplant programs in the country, both in terms of the number of transplants performed annually, and in long-term organ function and patient survival rates. -
January 16, 2025
VUMC to launch Molecular AI initiative to spur precision medicine, transplantation
The leader of the new initiative, Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD, will work to apply AI and other revolutionary technologies, including advanced molecular imaging techniques, to clinical practice. -
January 10, 2025
Novel procedure involves liver transplant, major abdominal surgery
Reginald Porter of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, received the procedure in September after being diagnosed at an area hospital in February with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer that develops in the bile ducts.