All News Archive — Page 140 of 160
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October 31, 2022
VUMC nurse Kendra Kilgore received a liver transplant as a teenager. Then her teenage daughter needed one, too.
Kendra's experince helped her daughter Carissa: "I was able to explain to her from a first-hand view what it was like, not as a nurse, but as someone who went through it." -
October 27, 2022
Kidney Transplant Program celebrates 60th anniversary
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is celebrating its 60th anniversary of its first kidney transplant, performed on Oct. 3, 1962. Since then, VUMC has performed more than 7,000 kidney transplants, of which Walker was one of the earlier cases. -
October 20, 2022
Osterman appointed chair of mCODE executive committee
Vanderbilt's Travis Osterman, DO, MS, has been appointed chair of the executive committee for the Minimal Common Data Elements (mCODE) initiative. -
October 17, 2022
Three Vanderbilt faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Three Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected this year to membership in the National Academy of Medicine, a prestigious, non-governmental organization that advises the nation and the world on important aspects of medical science, health care and public health. -
October 6, 2022
Vanderbilt’s Crowe receives the Building the Foundation Award from Research!America
Vanderbilt's James Crowe Jr., MD, has received the Building the Foundation Award from Research!America, a national biomedical research advocacy organization. -
September 29, 2022
Suzie Brown, singer-songwriter, meet Dr. Suzanne Brown Sacks, transplant cardiologist
Her twin passions for music and for medicine brought her to Nashville and to VUMC -
September 29, 2022
Patient journeys from South Africa for lung transplant
Mervyn Joseph, who searched the world over for the best place to be considered for lung transplant, is thankful he found Vanderbilt University Medical Center.