Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center Archive — Page 8 of 8

Portrait of Michael de Riesthal, Ph.D., smiling and wearing a light blue shirt with a brown sweater vest against a plain brown background.
August 23, 2012

Belmont, VU create Physical Therapy residency

Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson’s Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute (PBPRI) in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences is joining with the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont University to initiate a Neurological Physical Therapy Clinical Residency.

A clinician wearing a headlamp examines a woman’s open mouth with a handheld instrument. The clinician wears a white coat with an identification badge and Vanderbilt University pin.
April 18, 2012

Free head and neck cancer screening April 27

Teenage girl with headphones
March 28, 2012

Vanderbilt researchers find rise in teen hearing loss; offer headphone safety tips

According to a Vanderbilt-led study published in Journal of the American Medical Association, hearing loss is now affecting 20 percent of U.S. adolescents ages 12 to 19, which is a 5 percent increase over the past 15 years.

Close-up of a person holding a smartphone near their face while wearing wired earbuds; the phone screen text is too blurred to read.
March 28, 2012

Children’s Hospital offers headphone safety tips to prevent long-term hearing loss

Cross-sectional anatomical model of the human ear showing the outer, middle, and inner ear, including the ear canal, eardrum, ossicles, cochlea, and Eustachian tube.
October 10, 2011

Vestibular deficits and rehabilitation talk Oct. 18

Two people attend to a seated person’s bandaged or restrained lower leg while another person holds a white cloth nearby.
July 15, 2011

Health Plus offers Know Your Numbers this week

Visit the Bill Wilkerson Center, Occupational Health, and Health Plus to have your weight, blood pressure and body mass index checked.