Community & Giving Archive
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August 22, 2019
Harvest Party
Families recently gathered for the annual Arrington Vineyards Harvest Party. -
August 15, 2019
Event provided free hand surgeries for uninsured patients
Hand surgeons and other Vanderbilt Health staff offered surgeries to people who are uninsured and need surgical treatment for outpatient upper extremity conditions, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and ganglion cysts. -
August 14, 2019
All of Us Research Program Takes Aim at Precision Population Health
Scarcely a year after its national launch, the “All of Us” research program, which aims to accelerate the prevention and treatment of disease, has enrolled more than 230,000 research participants — more than a fifth of its recruitment goal of 1 million people. All -
August 8, 2019
Family’s long history with VUMC leads to cardiology directorship
Steve Riven is making a gift in memory of his father to create the Samuel S. Riven, MD, Directorship in Cardiology at VUMC. -
July 25, 2019
Couple’s transplant journey continues by helping others
Elizabeth “Betsy” Barbour and her late husband, Richard, created a fund to help support Vanderbilt’s lung transplant patient assistance fund. -
July 25, 2019
Eye Institute receives $10 million gift for vision research efforts
The Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) has received a $10 million gift that will fund regenerative visual neuroscience research to develop transformative therapies for eye diseases. -
July 24, 2019
Alice Ingram Hooker, longtime supporter of VUMC and Children’s Hospital, dies at 85
Alice Ingram Hooker, a longtime supporter of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and former chair of their boards, died July 23 after an extended illness.