Presented as part of the AHA Membership Milestone Awards, this recognition celebrates organizations whose long-standing partnership has helped strengthen hospitals and improve the health of communities across the nation.

Leveraging its expanding noncommunicable disease and HIV research portfolio in northern Nigeria, the team also plans to build local capacity in omics analysis.

Candidates for the Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar are graduate students in biomedical sciences at Vanderbilt (PhD or MD/PhD track) who have completed the qualifying exam and have at least one year left to complete the PhD degree.

The Vanderbilt Health NTM and Bronchiectasis Center, a program of the Vanderbilt Lung Institute, launched in 2023. The chronic lung disease is estimated to affect 350,000 to 500,000 adults in the United States.

The former Vanderbilt University School of Medicine student and Vanderbilt Health resident spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Louisville.

In her new role, Taylor will continue providing strategic leadership for nursing practice across more than 400 ambulatory clinical sites across Middle Tennessee, providing diagnostic, surgical, infusion, primary care, specialty care and home-based services.