Division of Geriatric Medicine Archives
Legner named associate vice chair for Network Services
Aug. 25, 2022—Victor Legner, MD, has been named to the new role of associate vice chair for Network Services for the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Legner to direct new Primary Patient Care Center
Oct. 1, 2020—Victor Legner, MD, has been named the founding executive medical director of the newly formed Primary Care Patient Care Center (PCC) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, effective Sept. 1.
Initiative stresses importance of advance directives
Apr. 12, 2018—While many might prefer to not think about dying, healthcare professionals throughout the United States are encouraging patients and their families to do just that during a national awareness campaign April 16-22 that promotes the importance of completing an advance directive for healthcare.
Powers receives award from Nutrition and Dietetics association
Mar. 31, 2016—James Powers, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and chief of Geriatric Medicine at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center, was recently named to receive the Iris Award from the Nashville Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
New faculty: Dugan explores complexities of Alzheimer’s
Oct. 20, 2014—Laura Dugan strives to bring breakthroughs in neuroscience research and the aging brain together.
Dugan named to lead Division of Geriatric Medicine
Apr. 3, 2014—Laura Dugan, M.D., the Larry L. Hillblom Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), will join the Vanderbilt faculty on April 7 to direct Vanderbilt University’s Division of Geriatric Medicine, a division of the Department of Medicine.