The Junior League of Nashville held its annual “wrapping party” on Monday, Dec. 10, where volunteers wrapped gifts and toys to be distributed to patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

In 1938, Frank Boehm’s parents fled Nazi Germany, where relatives on his father’s side would later be rounded up and sent to the death camps, never to return. “Fortunately, my dad had the vision and foresight to get out of Germany while he still could,” Boehm said.

Even canines, chickens and sabre-tooth tigers need protection

Country music star Tim McGraw has teamed up with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt to promote the hospital’s Give to the Next Breath initiative, a philanthropic marketing effort to support the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).

Ann Allen Robinson, 86, died at her home on Friday, Nov. 23 after a lengthy illness.

Patient ambassador Lily Hensiek, center, served as Mayor of Smashville at the Nashville Predators Hockey Fights Cancer Night on Saturday, Nov. 3.

Gennifer Goode, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Interdisciplinary Science and Research (ISR) Program, steadies a transparent “lightboard” while 10-year-old Malakai Zundel creates his version of a germ during the second annual MEGAMicrobe event hosted Oct. 27 by the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation.