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July 30, 2015

Dill named VUMC entertainment industry liaison

Stuart Dill, a 30-year veteran as an artist manager on Nashville’s Music Row, has been named Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s liaison with the entertainment industry, effective Aug. 4.

By Nancy Humphrey
July 30, 2015

Singer’s selfless gift benefits lung cancer program

In a town full of amazing singers, Nashville songstress Dawn Sears’ voice was something special.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 23, 2015

Young professionals bolster cancer research efforts

With a basketball tucked under his arm, 7-year-old Roger Waynick climbed on top of his dad’s black Tahoe SUV with the intention of sailing upward through the air toward the basketball goal. He was poised to make the most epic dunk ever.

By Jessica Pasley
June 25, 2015

Benefit concert for organ donation exceeds fundraising goals

In only its second year, Songs for Life, a benefit concert to raise awareness and celebrate organ donation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has far exceeded fundraising goals.

By Jessica Pasley
June 11, 2015

Former heart patient inspired to create Discovery Science Fund

Two vastly different causes of heart failure, both of which can devastate a patient’s life, are being studied at Vanderbilt University Medical Center thanks, in part, to the generosity of a grateful patient whose own damaged heart was repaired at Vanderbilt more than five years ago.

By Nancy Humphrey
May 28, 2015

Dietitian and friends donate chemo care bags to VICC patients

A Nashville-based dietitian who lost her mother to cancer is using the power of social media to raise funds for chemo care bags for cancer patients.

By VUMC News and Communications
May 21, 2015

Coleman’s telethon work a longtime labor of love

Not long after Tuwanda Coleman started her career as a TV producer at WTVF-NewsChannel 5 more than 30 years ago, she was given an assignment that was different from the typical minutes-long news segment.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 23, 2015

Brooks, Spalding tune up music industry support

Donating your own money, time and energy to a charitable cause is one thing. Asking friends and colleagues to join you in pursuit of a fundraising goal is something altogether different.
By Paul Govern
March 31, 2015

Stassun wins Branscomb Award at Spring Faculty Assembly

Five faculty awards were handed out March 31 during Spring Faculty Assembly, including the Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor Award.
By VUMC News and Communications
March 26, 2015

Virginia group tours Children’s Hospital as facility role model

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt just received the highest compliment.
By Christina Echegaray
February 26, 2015

Board members spur Children’s Hospital campaign

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt is growing to new heights on the shoulders of its board members, who are making key contributions to the campaign for a four-floor expansion, both in the giving of their time and resources.
By Matt Batcheldor
February 19, 2015

Photo: It takes a village

Christmas Village, a three-day November shopping extravaganza run by a volunteer board made up of Pi Beta Phi alumnae, raised $388,000 for the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center from its most recent event.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 12, 2015

BlackHawk’s Cancer Center support reaches milestone

Country music group BlackHawk recently presented a check for $20,000 to Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D., Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and director emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), in support of cancer research.
By VUMC News and Communications