VUMC People Archive — Page 8 of 81

Raymond Harris, MD
May 27, 2026

Raymond Harris receives William S. Middleton Award

The award is the highest honor for outstanding biomedical research from the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development.

Colorful 3D illustration of DNA sequencing, with a strand of nucleotide letters above multicolored sequencing waveform peaks and glowing data rows.
May 27, 2026

Vanderbilt Health-led team wins NIH Replication Prize for biobank data quality tool

DNA biobanks had lacked systematic ways to evaluate whether the medical record data being analyzed accurately reflected the diseases under study.

Portrait of Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, smiling at the camera against a brown background. She has shoulder-length gray-blonde hair and wears a blue beaded necklace with a black patterned top.
May 27, 2026

Kelly Dooley to depart Vanderbilt Health to lead Department of Medicine at Brown

A national search will be conducted to identify Dooley’s successor as director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and an interim director will be announced at a later date.

Smiling bald man with a mustache stands with his hands clasped in a hallway beside a framed purple-flower photograph.
May 26, 2026

At the end of life, Ian Cullen offers personalized spiritual care

“What I found in this work is that there’s a certain magic that every person has, and they don’t stop being who they are when medical crises happen.”

Billy Hudson, PhD, wearing a tuxedo and a red, white, and blue medal ribbon at an Ellis Island Honors Society event.
May 22, 2026

Billy Hudson receives 2026 Ellis Island Medal of Honor  

The Ellis Island Medals of Honor rank among the nation’s most renowned awards, officially recognized by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, with each year’s recipients listed in the Congressional Record.  

Catina Crawford, RN, smiles while holding a Daisy Award statue outdoors in front of greenery.
May 22, 2026

DAISY Award spotlight: ‘Her compassion shaped our first memories with our daughter — memories that could have been filled with fear but instead are filled with gratitude.’

Catina Crawford, RN, works in Women’s Health at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital. She is one of the latest Vanderbilt Health DAISY Award winners.