Reporter Feb 4 2022

Children’s Hospital patients get creative for Vanderbilt Men’s Basketball team as part of Coaches vs. Cancer

Feb. 3, 2022—by Christina Echegaray Ariana Robinson, 14, loves family and animals, appreciates the vibrancy of life and believes in hard work. Logan Hall, 13, is an avid sports fan and athlete and is passionate about a good motivational speech from his coaches before a football or baseball game. Both Ariana and Logan have acute myeloid leukemia...

Respiratory therapist Melanie Walker now works at Children’s Hospital helping NICU patients with breathing needs.

Respiratory therapist was once a neonatal intensive care unit patient

Feb. 3, 2022—Melanie Walker knows was once a patient in Vanderbilt's neonatal intensive care unit. Today, she's a respiratory therapist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

Team to study using probiotics to reduce heart disease risk

Feb. 3, 2022—A Vanderbilt research team has received a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to understand how alcohol’s effect on the gut microbiome drives heart disease.

Study finds shorter treatment better for young children with outpatient pneumonia

Feb. 3, 2022—A Vanderbilt study found that five days of antibiotics is superior to 10 days for children with community-acquired pneumonia who are not hospitalized.

Travis Osterman, DO, MS, is working to establish common data standards for oncology clinicians and researchers.

Osterman plays key role in major oncology EHR initiative

Feb. 3, 2022—Vanderbilt's Travis Osterman, DO, MS, is leading an integral component of the Minimal Common Data Elements (mCODE) initiative, establishing common data standards for oncology clinicians and researchers.

New model helps expand opioid use care options

Feb. 3, 2022—Vanderbilt is using an innovative hub and spoke treatment model to care for patients with opioid use disorder.

The virtual Advanced Practice Grand Rounds focused on the experience of caring for COVID-19 patients for nearly two years.

Advanced Practice Grand Rounds explores COVID’s impact

Feb. 3, 2022—The recent VUMC Advanced Practice Grand Rounds explored the impact the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is having on the nursing workforce.

Events scheduled to raise funds for the Shade Tree Clinic

Feb. 3, 2022—Several upcoming events are set to benefit the Shade Tree Clinic, which provides health care to Nashville’s uninsured community and is run by Vanderbilt medical and nursing students.

Corina Borza, PhD, left, Ambra Pozzi, PhD, and colleagues are studying a certain cell surface receptor’s role in the process that leads to kidney failure.

VUMC study raises hope for improving treatment of kidney disease

Feb. 2, 2022—Vanderbilt research has revealed an important mechanism in the kidney by which a cell surface receptor known as DDR1 fans the flames of inflammation and fibrosis that ultimately lead to kidney failure.

Winkfield to direct engagement for national research network

Feb. 2, 2022—Vanderbilt is set to establish an Engagement Coordinating Center for PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.

Patrick Hu, MD, PhD, has been named assistant dean for Physician-Researcher Training and director of the Office for Medical Student Research.

Hu named to direct Office for Medical Student Research

Feb. 2, 2022—Patrick Hu, MD PhD, associate professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology, has been named assistant dean for Physician-Researcher Training and director of the Office for Medical Student Research.