Velour Vanderbilt wore her pink party clothes to celebrate her 3rd birthday with patients, family and staff.

The method, rapid recovery with extended ultra-oxygenated preservation, involves flushing the donor heart with a cold oxygenated preservation solution after death.

A Q&A with Vanderbilt Imaging Services’ EB Jackson, MBA, President, and Morgan Anderson, MD, Medical Director.

Among the Eskind family’s many contributions were the establishment of the comprehensive Vanderbilt Eskind Diabetes Clinic and the Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.

“He deserves the highest recognition for his endless effort, dedication and thoughtful approach to the care of his patients.”

The research characterizes the molecular “cargo” of circulating extracellular vesicles in obesity and links the findings to human genetic approaches to identify potential therapeutic targets for metabolic disease.