Division of Academic General Pediatrics

November 3, 2024

Greenlight study demonstrates effective early intervention in preventing childhood obesity

Researchers examined if childhood obesity could be prevented by leveraging a combination of health behavior counseling offered by pediatric primary care clinicians and modern digital health literacy tools.

By Christina Echegaray
The new home of Vanderbilt Children’s Primary Care at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks provides much-needed additional space for the clinic. (photo by Donn Jones)
September 17, 2024

Vanderbilt Children’s Primary Care moves to new home at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks

The clinic, Vanderbilt Children’s Primary Care, is expanding from 20,000 square feet to 29,000 with the addition of 13 exam rooms, dedicated consult areas, a checkout area to allow for specialty service scheduling and a devoted learning space for the nearly 80 resident staff members.

By Jessica Pasley
July 22, 2024

Opioid treatment can avoid foster care placement: study

If women are given medications to treat opioid use disorder during their pregnancy they are significantly more likely to retain custody of their newborns after delivery

By Bill Snyder
April 26, 2023

Heerman named chief of General Pediatrics

Bill Heerman, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics, has been named chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, effective May 1.

By Christina Echegaray
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March 30, 2023

Infant sleep safety education vital to reduce deaths

According to Tennessee’s 2022 Child Fatality Annual Report, over the past five years, white infants accounted for most of the sleep-related infant deaths in Tennessee, but Black infants were three times more likely to suffer a sleep-related fatality.

By Jessica Pasley
April 28, 2022

VUMC named BEST for Babies hospital by TDH

Vanderbilt University Medical Center once again was named as a BEST for Babies hospital by the Tennessee Department of Health.

By Jessica Pasley