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Cover of The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group’s Spring 2024 Report 27, titled “The Workforce Crisis: Innovative Approaches to Address Current Shortfalls and Prepare for a Sustainable Future,” over a layered mountain landscape at sunset.
March 20, 2024

Health care workforce shortages prompt Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report

The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group — formed in 1997 by leaders of several of the nation’s top academic health centers — studies and reports on issues of fundamental importance to improving the health care system. Its new report sets out innovations that health centers can undertake to address the ongoing health care workforce crisis.

By Paul Govern
Top-down arrangement of foods associated with natural antioxidants, including blueberries, walnuts, pomegranate seeds, apples, bananas, almonds, olive oil, ginger, tomatoes, oranges, broccoli, garlic, dark chocolate, and goji berries.
March 19, 2024

Over 40% of Tennessee Families With Children Say They Are Food Insecure; 70% Have Changed Spending on Food

This year’s Vanderbilt Child Health Poll shows that over 40% of Tennessee families report they are food insecure ― a similar proportion from last year. Most families (71%) say they have continued to change food spending habits due to high prices.

By Jake Lowary
Nine-panel grid of coronal brain MRI scans, with red-to-yellow overlays highlighting regions across the top two rows; the bottom row shows grayscale scans without overlays.
March 19, 2024

Kennedy Center lab seeks people ages 8-60 with or without autism for MRI study of brain connections

The Laboratory for Affective Sensory Research is looking for individuals 8-60 years old (with or without autism) who are willing to have an MRI brain scan to help researchers understand how connections between the brain and the body relate to sensory issues in people with autism.

A healthcare worker uses a stethoscope and manual blood pressure cuff to measure a patient’s blood pressure.
March 18, 2024

Bariatric surgery linked to cardiometabolic health improvements: study

Bariatric surgery can lead to significant cardiometabolic health improvements using a variety of measures, including blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and hemoglobin A1C, according to a new study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.  

By Jill Clendening
Head-and-shoulders portrait of an older man with brown hair and a white beard, wearing a dark jacket and light shirt against a plain gray background.
March 18, 2024

VUMC’s Jay Jerome honored by Microscopy Society of America

Jerome is the 2024 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist Award, which honors “preeminent senior scientists for a long-standing record of achievement in the field of microscopy and microanalysis.”

By Bill Snyder
Portrait of a smiling man wearing a gray suit, white shirt, and patterned tie.
March 18, 2024

VUMC’s Sunil Kripalani joins AHRQ Advisory Council

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Council helps guide national priorities for health services research that promotes improvements in the quality, safety and efficiency of clinical practice.

By Bill Snyder