Innovative partnership delivers high retention and fills critical staffing gaps across Vanderbilt Health clinics

A fall from a tree left Mark Ogorodnik fighting for his life. Thanks to faith, family and cutting-edge neurocritical care at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, his story became a testament to resilience and hope.

This completely virtual program provides a 36-credit-hour curriculum over 21 months, with a coursework-intensive first year followed by a practicum and a mentored capstone project.

Bunyaviruses can lead to many illnesses, ranging from mild fevers to serious and sometimes deadly diseases such as hemorrhagic fevers and encephalitis in both children and adults.

She succeeds Terri Hartman, the long-time director of the program, who retired Oct. 31.

Any length of time without immunizations is a time without protection against vaccine-preventable diseases.

The collaboration will leverage VUMC’s resource platform, including its comprehensive datasets hosted in Vanderbilt’s BioVU collection of DNA and plasma to enable data-driven insights and to accelerate discovery and development.