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November 17, 2022

Several from VUMC among most highly cited researchers

Nine current faculty members of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have made this year’s list of scientists whose papers have been cited most frequently by other researchers.

By Bill Snyder
November 16, 2022

Cardiac antigen identified as mechanism for heart complication with immunotherapy-related myocarditis

Researchers from from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have identified the mechanism for the deadly heart inflammation myocarditis.

By Tom Wilemon
November 15, 2022

Lori Rolando sets an example of working hard but protecting work-life balance

For her work, the Occupational Health Clinic Director was recognized with a Five Pillar Leader Award.

By Jill Clendening
November 11, 2022

With each pediatric heart surgery she schedules, Alicia Kepley builds a rapport with families

By Nancy Humphrey
Jacek Hawiger, MD, PhD, third from right, with study team members, from left, Katherine Gibson-Corley, DVM, PhD, Yan Liu, MD, Jozef Zienkiewicz, PhD, Huan Qiao, MD, PhD, and Ruth Ann Veach.
November 10, 2022

Hawiger still blazing a trail in inflammation research

Vanderbilt research describes a new investigational peptide drug that can penetrate immune and nonimmune cells, and block inflammatory signaling in a preclinical model of atopic dermatitis — eczema.

By Bill Snyder
November 10, 2022

Infectious Diseases Society of America honors Wright

Vanderbilt’s Patty Wright, MD, is one of two recipients of the 2022 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

By Paul Govern
November 1, 2022

Brady named Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs

Donald Brady, MD, has been appointed to an expanded oversight role of Executive Vice Dean for Academic Affairs for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
By John Howser
October 31, 2022

VUMC nurse Kendra Kilgore received a liver transplant as a teenager. Then her teenage daughter needed one, too.

Kendra's experince helped her daughter Carissa: "I was able to explain to her from a first-hand view what it was like, not as a nurse, but as someone who went through it."
By Jessica Pasley
October 27, 2022

Kidney Transplant Program celebrates 60th anniversary

The Vanderbilt Transplant Center is celebrating its 60th anniversary of its first kidney transplant, performed on Oct. 3, 1962. Since then, VUMC has performed more than 7,000 kidney transplants, of which Walker was one of the earlier cases.
By Matt Batcheldor
October 20, 2022

Osterman appointed chair of mCODE executive committee

Vanderbilt's Travis Osterman, DO, MS, has been appointed chair of the executive committee for the Minimal Common Data Elements (mCODE) initiative.
By Tom Wilemon
October 17, 2022

Three Vanderbilt faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Three Vanderbilt University faculty members have been elected this year to membership in the National Academy of Medicine, a prestigious, non-governmental organization that advises the nation and the world on important aspects of medical science, health care and public health.
By Bill Snyder and Kiya Gaskin
October 6, 2022

Vanderbilt’s Crowe receives the Building the Foundation Award from Research!America

Vanderbilt's James Crowe Jr., MD, has received the Building the Foundation Award from Research!America, a national biomedical research advocacy organization.
By Bill Snyder
September 29, 2022

Suzie Brown, singer-songwriter, meet Dr. Suzanne Brown Sacks, transplant cardiologist

Her twin passions for music and for medicine brought her to Nashville and to VUMC
By Matt Batcheldor
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