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November 29, 2012

Family’s experience spurs creation of fellowship

Carol Ann Gavin became critically ill on Super Bowl Sunday in 2010 while vacationing in Florida. But after two surgeries for a bowel obstruction at a Florida hospital, her husband, Charles Gavin III, asked that she be flown home to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he knew she would get unequaled health care at one of finest medical centers in the country.

By Nancy Humphrey
Ann Scott Carell
August 29, 2012

Carell remembered as champion of Vanderbilt

By VUMC News and Communications
August 16, 2012

Predators jump in to help fight childhood cancer

The Nashville Predators organization presented more than $151,000 to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt recently to fund cutting-edge cancer research.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 12, 2012

Photo: Preds Prospect Day

By VUMC News and Communications
February 3, 2012

Help put childhood cancer on ice at Predators game March 10

By VUMC News and Communications
October 14, 2011

Watch hockey, help fight childhood cancer Oct. 27

By VUMC News and Communications
March 28, 2011

Vanderbilt Kennedy Center campers join Darius Rucker at ACM Awards

A special performance at the 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards April 3 at 8 p.m. on CBS featuring country music star Darius Rucker and participants in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp will benefit the Kennedy Center.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 15, 2011

Country singer John Rich kicks off Dance Marathon at Vanderbilt University

By VUMC News and Communications
February 3, 2011

Vanderbilt University students dance all night for a good cause

By VUMC News and Communications
February 25, 2010

Two Vanderbilt scientists win Sloan research fellowships

Physicist Andreas Berlind and human geneticist Marylyn Ritchie at Vanderbilt University have each won two-year, $50,000 research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars.
By Bill Snyder
November 25, 2009

Vanderbilt students host “Miracle on 24th Ave.” fashion show benefiting Children’s Hospital

Two Vanderbilt University student organizations have teamed up to host "Miracle on 24th Ave.," a holiday-themed fashion show benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 20, 2008

Country group Rascal Flatts honored for Children’s Hospital work

Country music supergroup Rascal Flatts has been honored for their unflagging support of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children\'s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The multiplatinum-selling band was presented with the Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Country Music and Home Depot during Sunday Night\'s 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.
By VUMC News and Communications
February 6, 2008

Vanderbilt-Peruvian partnership addresses silent epidemic of diabetes; Center for the Americas collaboration provides multi-specialty approach

Mobile cameras, high-resolution digital imaging and funding from the Center for the Americas at Vanderbilt University are among the key components of a cross-cultural pilot program to prevent vision loss in at-risk Latin Americans.
By VUMC News and Communications