Division of Laboratory Medicine Archive — Page 1 of 1

Bryan Harris, MD, MPH, MMHC. (photo by Susan Urmy)

May 13, 2026

Bryan Harris named Executive Vice President for Shared Clinical Services Division

The Division supports Vanderbilt Health’s various entities such as Vanderbilt University Hospital, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt Health Services, along with Vanderbilt Health’s regional hospitals and ambulatory clinics.

By John Howser

Portrait of a person with long brown hair and glasses, wearing a blue top and black cardigan against a neutral background.

November 7, 2025

Romney Humphries named vice chair of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Humphries also will serve as executive medical director of the Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Clinical Service Center.

By Bill Snyder

Laboratory team members work and discuss results among computer workstations in a brightly lit clinical testing lab; a sign labeled “Hematology” hangs overhead.

July 1, 2025

New lab for transplant, other specialized testing launches at Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories

The new Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory launched its first phase of testing June 26 and ultimately will fully support clinical testing for the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, the nation’s third busiest transplant center by volume.

By Leigh MacMillan

A woman examines a laboratory sample through the eyepiece of an Olympus microscope.

December 12, 2024

Go inside the lab as Maddie Wright, a CF warrior, ‘geeks out’ over the science of Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories

A 17-year-old cystic fibrosis warrior and liver transplant recipient with antibiotic resistance got to see science in action at Vanderbilt Medical Laboratories.

By Jessica Pasley and Erin O. Smith

February 1, 2024

Romney Humphries receives John V. Bergen Excellence Award

Vanderbilt’s Romney Humphries, PhD, has received the 2024 John V. Bergen Excellence Award from the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute.

By Leigh MacMillan

Bright, modern laboratory space with rows of workstations, stools, storage cabinets, and a glass-fronted laboratory enclosure.

September 22, 2023

Laboratory employees get an early look at new facility

Vanderbilt University Medical Center laboratory employees, their families and many others involved in the ongoing transformation of the Medical Center’s laboratories had a first peek at the new 110,000-square-foot core laboratory space during a recent open house.

By Jill Clendening

August 31, 2022
Monkeypox testing available for eligible VUMC patients

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is now offering in-house monkeypox polymerase chain reaction (PCR) diagnostic testing for patients who are eligible.
By Jill Clendening
August 11, 2022
Rise seen in parechovirus cases among children

Doctors at Vanderbilt are seeing an unusually high number of young patients infected with a virus called parechovirus.
By Jessica Pasley
March 7, 2013
Diagnostic management efforts thrive on teamwork

As choices mount for patient testing and treatment, diagnostic management has arisen at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to address two closely related questions that clinicians must ask themselves more and more often: have I ordered the right tests for this patient; and, taken together, what do these test results imply for the best treatment of this patient?
By Paul Govern