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September 20, 2012

Transplant Center programs honored for strong outcomes

Three Vanderbilt Transplant Center programs were recently recognized for having high-performing outcomes by the Donation and Transplantation Community of Practice of the Health Resources and Services Administration.

By Jessica Pasley

April 12, 2012

Targeting post-transplant diabetes

Targeting diabetes that develops after a stem cell transplant may help moderate graft-vs.-host disease, an adverse effect of the procedure, and improve outcomes.

By VUMC News and Communications

January 5, 2012

Number of heart transplants at VUMC on rise

By Jessica Pasley

April 7, 2011

Beam Signing celebrates expansion at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

By VUMC News and Communications

May 28, 2010

Expansion planned for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt University is announcing plans to build an expansion to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. This first-phase expansion will add additional acute, neonatal intensive care and medical-surgical beds, and also allow for increased space to house a growing number of physician scientists who care for Middle Tennessee’s youngest patients.

By VUMC News and Communications

June 8, 2006

First Adult Cancer Patient in Nashville to Receive Stem Cell Transplant from Umbilical Cord Blood at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he’ll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history.