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September 10, 2025
Death on the web
Cause of death often lies buried amid content on crowdfunding platforms, web-based obituaries and memorial websites. With AI assistance, gathering and combining this mortality data with medical records could help power research and public health. -
September 10, 2025
Family friend provides lifesaving living donor transplant for East Tennessean
With living donor liver transplants, surgery is scheduled in advance. The recipient can get a liver before becoming too sick, often within weeks if they have a compatible living donor. -
September 9, 2025
Cheating Alzheimer’s
Most people whose brains exhibit Alzheimer's pathology don’t have the disease; they reach the end of their lives never having exhibited cognitive impairment. A new study examines the genetics of this resilience. -
September 9, 2025
Jamie Phillips named President of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
She brings nearly 30 years of experience in health care administration to Monroe Carell, the past seven of which have been in a chief operating officer role. -
September 9, 2025
William Cooper named Senior Vice President for Professionalism and Clinical Excellence
He will be responsible for promoting and ensuring the highest standards of professionalism and performance among faculty, clinical staff, trainees and students throughout the health system. -
September 9, 2025
Vanderbilt Cardiomyopathy-Heart Failure Program receives international honor
Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD, the Lisa M. Jacobson Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, was awarded the Heart Failure Lifetime Achievement Award. -
September 8, 2025
SPORE grant funds $12 million for colorectal cancer research
SPORE grants are highly sought after because they show that a cancer center demonstrates scientific excellence, promotes collaboration, maintains robust research programs and merits substantial funding.