Reporter Dec 17 2021
Family knows firsthand the critical need for blood donations
Dec. 17, 2021—Vanderbilt cancer patient Brody Cramer knows all too well how crucial blood donations are. Since he was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year he has needed 23 units of red blood cells and 16 units of platelets.
Silver appointed to national committee assessing human requirements for energy intake and expenditure
Dec. 17, 2021—Vanderbilt's Heidi Silver, PhD, RDN, MS, has been appointed to an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to assess the human requirements for energy intake and expenditure.
Year in Review 2021: A year of perseverance, achievement at VUMC
Dec. 16, 2021—The fight against COVID-19 carried on, but while the pandemic dominated the news in 2021, there were many other achievements that made headlines this year at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Year in Review 2021: VUMC again lauded in multiple national rankings
Dec. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt University Medical Center placed highly in several national rankings and was honored with numerous awards during the past year.
Year in Review 2021: Appointments strengthen Medical Center’s mission
Dec. 16, 2021—New leadership appointments during the past year helped strengthen Vanderbilt University Medical Center's core missions.
VUMC prepared to comply with No Surprises Act
Dec. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt University Medical Center will soon deliver treatment cost estimates to all patients who do not provide insurance information when scheduling services three or more days in advance.
Game theory points to new DNA data privacy solutions
Dec. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt research is blazing a trail for the application of game theory to genomic and health data reidentification risk.
Two VUMC papers named among genomic medicine’s top 10
Dec. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt researchers wrote two of the “top 10” papers representing key advances in genomic medicine published between September 2020 and August 2021.
AI used to identify patients at risk for lung cancer
Dec. 16, 2021— by Matt Batcheldor The Vanderbilt Lung Institute is the first location in Tennessee to debut Optellum Virtual Lung Nodule Clinic comprehensive management software that, using artificial intelligence, can identify and track patients at risk for lung cancer — even if they have never been in for a cancer screening. That’s because the Optellum software...
Ward named Dermatology’s vice chair of Basic Research
Dec. 16, 2021—Nicole Ward, PhD, has joined Vanderbilt as professor and vice-chair of Basic Research in the Department of Dermatology, effective Jan. 15, 2021.
Ess, Warren, Williams elected to American Pediatric Society
Dec. 16, 2021—Three Vanderbilt pediatricians have been elected to the American Pediatric Society, one of the nation’s oldest and most renowned academic societies.
Cardiology Core Lab gains CAP accreditation
Dec. 16, 2021—Vanderbilt's Cardiology Core Laboratory for Translational and Clinical Research biorepository recently obtained accreditation from the College of American Pathologists
