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May 6, 2024

As VUMC celebrates Nurses Week, a special message from Dr. Jeff Balser, President and CEO

This year as we recognize Nurses Week, I want to express my gratitude to each of you for the compassionate care you provide every day. The impact you have on our patients and their families — uplifting their lives — is immeasurable.
Screenshot of the newly launched news.vumc.org. The homepages features a photo of a 'Donate Life' event and highlights the design of VUMC News.
May 3, 2024

Enhanced ‘VUMC News’ website offers new features

The new site is designed to provide easier access to information for members of the VUMC community, and for millions of other visitors to the site each year.

By Holly Fletcher
Daniel Fabbri, PhD, spoke about his entrepreneurial journey from graduate studies to founding a successful health care technology company. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 3, 2024

Faculty member Daniel Fabbri describes entrepreneurial journey

The talk provided insights into the challenges and rewards of commercializing academic research.

By Paul Govern
(image by Diana Duren)
May 2, 2024

Take the challenge to experience what it’s like to live with food allergies

The ‘Top 9 Food Challenge’ spotlights the challenge that 33 million Americans with food allergies have when choosing what to eat.

By Jessica Pasley
(photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 2, 2024

25th Annual VICC Scientific Retreat focuses on hereditary cancers

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center 25th Annual Scientific Retreat will focus on hereditary cancers and feature nationally and internationally renowned speakers on the subject.

By Tom Wilemon
Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, spoke about the Medical Center’s growth during the Spring Leadership Assembly. (photo by Erin O. Smith)
May 2, 2024

Leadership Assembly: VUMC Growth Strengthens Communities

Recent expansions in locations, capacity and business lines underscore how VUMC is navigating fast-paced population growth and the financial headwinds facing health systems across the country.

By Holly Fletcher
May 2, 2024

Relaunched Staff Advisory Council better reflects makeup of Medical Center

The Medical Center Staff Advisory Council has evolved to better reflect today’s VUMC, which has grown significantly since the council’s formation.
By Jill Clendening
May 2, 2024

The big sort 

A new interactive tool presents information on noncoding RNA in extracellular vesicles — agents of cell-cell communication that may have a future in medical diagnosis and therapeutics.
By Paul Govern
May 1, 2024

VUMC’s Alexander Bick receives a “healthy aging” research award

Vanderbilt's Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, has received a Hevolution/AFAR New Investigator Award in Aging Biology and Geroscience Research from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and Hevolution Foundation.
By Bill Snyder
May 1, 2024

Bird flu in the milk supply; an allergy doctor’s allergy shots; the cost of weight-loss and diabetes drugs; and other news stories with VUMC sources

May 1, 2024

Iroquois Steeplechase set for Saturday, May 11

The Iroquois Steeplechase, Nashville’s iconic sporting event benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, has named its honorary co-chairs and child ambassador for the 2024 race, set for Saturday, May 11.
By Jessica Pasley
May 1, 2024

DAISY Award spotlight: “Maddy was so compassionate and caring the entire time.”

Maddy Barber, BSN, RN, works in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She is one of the latest group of DAISY Award winners at VUMC.
By Matt Batcheldor
May 1, 2024

Study finds 500 new blood pressure genes

An analysis of the genomes of more than 1 million people of European ancestry, conducted by several of the world’s leading genomic centers, including Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has identified more than 2,000 independent genetic signals for blood pressure.
By Bill Snyder
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