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Volunteers packaged a total of 10,173 pounds of frozen food and 588 boxes of shelf-stable food at this year's Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Community Service Day.
December 21, 2021

Vanderbilt Orthopaedics Community Service Day benefits Second Harvest Food Bank

Vanderbilt Department of Orthopaedics clinicians and staff gathered at Second Harvest Food Bank recently to help package dry and refrigerated food as part of the third annual Vanderbilt Orthopaedics Community Service Day.

By Emily Stembridge
John S. Penn, PhD
December 9, 2021

Vision foundation’s longtime support key to Penn’s research efforts

By Nancy Humphrey
Child ambassador Grace Hamilton, 13, rides the Zamboni at the Nashville Predators Hockey Fights Cancer game Nov. 13.
November 17, 2021

Hockey Fights Cancer comes through for Children’s Hospital

The Nashville Predators hockey team continued its longtime support of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with this week’s Hockey Fights Cancer game.

By Christina Echegaray
Evan Campa and Eben Cathey, along with their children, Mae and Reuben, are helping to raise funds to create an ALS research program at VUMC.
September 23, 2021

Local family shines in campaign to establish ALS research program

Evan Campa and her family are at the forefront of a campaign to establish an ALS basic science research program at Vanderbilt.

By Paul Govern
September 22, 2021

Kannankeril named inaugural holder of the Richard B. Johnston Jr., MD, Chair in Pediatric Research

Prince Kannankeril, MD, MSCI, has been appointed inaugural holder of the Richard B. Johnston Jr. MD, Chair in Pediatric Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By John Howser
The newly opened Reed Family Maternal Fetal Clinic is located on the ninth floor of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
September 15, 2021

Children’s Hospital debuts new Reed Family Maternal Fetal Clinic

Vanderbilt has opened a state of the art maternal fetal clinic to help expectant parents navigate the difficult decision-making process for babies at risk for or born with birth defects or abnormalities.

By Christina Echegaray
September 9, 2021

Gift creates directorship in translational vision research

Marlene and Spencer Hays’ longtime support of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute includes the recent commitment to establish the Marlene & Spencer Hays Directorship in Translational Vision Research.
By Nancy Humphrey
September 2, 2021

Children’s Hospital to benefit from raffle of new home

Middle Tennessee home builder Willow Branch Homes has donated one of their new homes to raffle off in support of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.
By Christina Echegaray
August 26, 2021

Family’s gift celebrates those who make transplants possible

All Coleen Leszczynski ever wanted was to be normal. Born with a congenital heart disease (CHD), she labored to breathe, having only three-quarters the oxygen capacity of a healthy person. Still, she fought to live, serving as a cardiac nurse in her native Philadelphia area for more than 16 years. She wanted to help people like her.
By Matt Batcheldor
August 25, 2021

Event provides free hand surgeries for uninsured

Approximately 60 Vanderbilt Orthopaedics volunteers provided surgical treatment to 16 patients at the fifth Annual Vanderbilt Orthopaedics Outreach Day on Saturday, Aug. 21.
By Emily Stembridge
August 19, 2021

Supporting ovarian cancer research

Rocker George Thorogood recently made a donation to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) from the Marla Thorogood Memorial Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research.
By VUMC News and Communications
July 29, 2021

Kapu to direct VUSN’s clinical, community partnerships

April Kapu, DNP, APRN, has left her role as associate nursing officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center Advanced Practice and director of the Office of Advance Practice, and begun a new position as associate dean for Clinical and Community Partnerships at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing (VUSN).
By Matt Batcheldor
May 20, 2021

William and Frances Blot deed home to VUMC to benefit cancer patients

Their condominium in The Westbury was at the heart of all that William and Frances Blot loved about Nashville — its proximity to Vanderbilt where he worked for two decades, its sidewalk that led to the greenspaces where they would watch the seasons change, and its residents who became more like friends than neighbors.
By Tom Wilemon