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Group of dancers in teal costumes perform synchronized high kicks on a brightly lit stage with multicolored curtains, viewed from the audience.
June 26, 2023

Irish step dancing and science share equal billing in Maureen Gannon’s world

She is known for her diabetes research. She’s also pretty proud of her polished lift, a high, straight-legged kick that shows both flexibility and gracefulness.

By Jill Clendening
Black-and-white photograph of a smiling man standing beside an open front-loading washing machine, with two women nearby; one wears a uniform with a prominent red cross emblem.
May 15, 2023

Polio patients, iron lung respirators, and…hey, is that Pat Boone??!!

Polio was a terrifying disease, once filling wards at VUMC with paralyzed patients in iron lungs. Vaccines have saved us from all that.

By Wayne Wood
A young person wearing glasses and a hospital wristband plays a grand piano in a chapel, with stained-glass windows behind them.
May 4, 2023

That piano music coming from the chapel? It’s a 16-year-old patient at the baby grand

The first chance he got to leave his hospital room, Gabe Gingerich made his way to the keyboard

By Jessica Pasley
Smiling woman and man pose outdoors in front of leafy trees; the man wears sunglasses, a cap, and a red shirt with a three-star emblem.
May 2, 2023

VUMC surgical tech cheers on daughter Grace West on NBC’s “The Voice”

Daryl Rembinski’s family moved to Nashville from Detroit to support Grace’s singing career

By Nancy Humphrey
An older man wearing a black face mask plays a grand piano in a clinic waiting room, with seated patients and a sign on the piano.
March 16, 2023

Soothing sounds

Nashville pianist Ed Bazel, founder of The River of Calm music channel, recently played for patients in the waiting room of the Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

By Tom Wilemon
Smiling woman with short blond hair standing in front of a drum kit, with colorful patterned decorations and feather boas in the background.
January 24, 2023

Debbie Kemp Kimbro remembered for her ability to build connections

“She developed friends everywhere she went in her professional and personal life with her warm and engaging personality,” said C. Wright Pinson of the EMS nurse, LifeFlight nurse, physician liaison and singer for the VUMC band Soul Incision.

By Jill Clendening