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July 13, 2017
Children’s Hospital ED adds new rooms to speed treatment
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt has added seven new rooms to its Emergency Department (ED) to help increase the speed with which the team assesses and treats pediatric patients for minor emergencies. -
July 7, 2017
Veteran receives rare dual transplant of heart and liver at Vanderbilt
A veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard recently received a new heart and liver at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), one of only a handful of hospitals that have performed the dual transplant surgery this year. -
June 22, 2017
Event celebrates Vanderbilt heart transplant program’s achievements
Patients, faculty and staff gathered in Langford Auditorium on June 12 to celebrate Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) milestone 1,000th heart transplant. -
June 8, 2017
Event to celebrate heart transplantation milestone
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is home to the second busiest heart transplant program in the country and ranked No. 1 in the Southeast region for volume for its combined adult and pediatric procedures. -
May 18, 2017
Alexopoulos named chief of liver transplantation program
Sophoclis Alexopoulos, M.D., has been named chief of Vanderbilt’s Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Liver Transplantation. -
April 6, 2017
VUMC mourns loss of Transplant Center’s Payne
Jerita Payne, MSN, ACNP, MMHC, director of Clinical Transplant Services at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), died March 22 after a brief illness. She was 54. -
April 6, 2017
Heart transplant program reaches major milestone
Surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) performed five heart transplants in four days to place the institution among an elite group of transplant centers in the country — reaching 1,000 heart transplantations.