Mary Yarbrough Archives
Rolando transitions to lead Health and Wellness
Mar. 20, 2023— by Wayne Wood Lori Rolando, MD, MPH, has transitioned into a new role as executive director of Vanderbilt Health and Wellness. In this new role, she will oversee Occupational Health, Health Plus and Work/Life Connections-EAP. Rolando has been at Vanderbilt for 15 years and, in her previous role as director of the Occupational Health...
New Quiz Time module provides resources for clinician well-being
Mar. 30, 2022—A new Quiz Time module at Vanderbilt, “Elevating with Support: A Toolkit for Clinicians at VUMC,” is focused on clinician well-being.
Smoking rate at VUMC falls to 3.5 percent
Nov. 13, 2018—by Wayne Wood The rate of smoking at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has dropped significantly in the past 15 years, to only 3.5 percent, down from 12.1 percent in 2003. That means that the rate of smoking at VUMC is below the Tennessee rate of 22 percent and the U.S. rate of 16 percent. The...
National report sounds alarm on clinician burnout
Jan. 25, 2018—A new report issued by the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group calls clinician burnout a “hidden epidemic” and suggests that addressing it should be one of the highest priorities across the healthcare industry.
Physicians’ well-being task force distributes two-question survey
Jul. 26, 2017—The Vanderbilt Task Force for Empowerment and Well-Being, a group formed earlier this year to investigate and implement ways to prevent burnout among physicians, will be using an online tool to gather information in the next few weeks to help it with its work. An email containing a link to the tool was sent earlier...
Celebrating Swift
May. 25, 2017—Melanie Swift, M.D., center, is joined at a recent farewell reception in her honor by Mary Yarbrough, M.D., left, executive director of Faculty and Staff Health and Wellness, and Lori Rolando, M.D., MPH, who succeeds Swift as director of Occupational Health for Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).
Diet? Exercise? Sleep? Vanderbilt study identifies best immediate changes for long-term health benefits
Jan. 12, 2017—The project began with a question — among a list of 10 lifestyle behaviors, any of which a person can change immediately, which ones have the most impact on health?
VU lands award for promoting healthy lifestyles
Aug. 7, 2014—Vanderbilt earned a 2014 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyles Award for the second year in a row.
VU lauded at Global Healthy Workplace Summit
May. 29, 2014—Vanderbilt University has been named second in the world for its programs to enhance the physical and mental health and safety of its employees throughout the University and Medical Center.
Vanderbilt recognized for innovations in overcoming health care disparities
Mar. 12, 2014—The National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit association of nearly 400 large U.S. employers, has selected Vanderbilt University as a winner of an Innovation in Reducing Health Care Disparities Award.
Vanderbilt named a ‘healthiest workplace in America’
Jan. 31, 2014—Vanderbilt University has been named one of the Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America for 2014 by Healthiest Employers, an independent corporate wellness research and data analysis firm.
VUMC leaders: ‘The Future is All Around Us’
Jul. 6, 2012—A team of writers and reporters from VUMC News and Communications spoke to a selected group of Medical Center leaders about where they think the opportunities and challenges lie in the decade ahead, and the part that all of us play as we move ahead together.
