Year: 2012
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Youth African drumming and dance class to hold free session Jan. 14
Kwame Ahima will teach the use of African instruments at a youth class at Blair School of Music. Photo courtesy of Blair School of Music Blair School of Music‘s brand-new Sankofa pre-college African performing ensemble is a great way to get some rhythm into your child’s life. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Listen: Vandy basketball fans encouraged to recycle
(Steve Green/Vanderbilt) As SEC basketball heats up at Memorial Gym, the Sustainability and Environmental Management Office has an important reminder for fans. Please take advantage of the opportunity to use those green bins awaiting your discarded plastic cups and containers. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Number of heart transplants at VUMC on rise
Vanderbilt University Medical Center usually performs about 15 heart transplants a year. Since August, however, the program has experienced a surge in the number of procedures. In five months there have been 19 transplantations, bringing the total number in 2011 to 25 adult heart transplants, with a 100 percent survival… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Study applies random genotype sets to new disease
A new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, led by Vanderbilt researchers Josh Denny, M.D., M.S., and Dana Crawford, Ph.D., takes random volumes of human genotypes and matches them with data siphoned from de-identified medical records and sheds new light on the genetic basis of the common… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Melatonin found to ease sleep woes in children with autism
Vanderbilt researchers are studying how the supplement melatonin can ease the sleep difficulties that often afflict children with autism spectrum disorders. (iStock) A new Vanderbilt study shows that the over-the-counter supplement melatonin is promising in helping children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and their families, sleep better. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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VUMC researchers reveal darker side of common cold
Human rhinovirus (HRV), also known as the common cold, can be uncommonly serious for certain children, a study led by a Vanderbilt University Medical Center pediatrician shows. The study, published in the Dec. 28, 2011 online issue of the journal Pediatrics, shows that not only can HRV lead to hospitalization… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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VUMC winter faculty meeting set for Feb. 1
The Medical Center-wide Vanderbilt University Medical Center Faculty Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 4 p.m. in 208 Light Hall. Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the School of Medicine Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Diabetes trial sets bar high for retaining research subjects
Research participant Loren Kirkpatrick, right, has worked with Janie Lipps, MSN, and Vanderbilt’s Diabetes Control and Complications Trial since its inception in 1983. (Daniel Dubois / Vanderbilt) Loren Kirkpatrick has been enrolled in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) at Vanderbilt’s Diabetes Center for nearly half… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Flexner recalled for compassion, devotion
The halls of VUMC are a little quieter today. John M. Flexner, M.D., professor of Medicine, emeritus, whose booming voice and outgoing personality were a part of the Medical Center since his arrival here in 1954, died surrounded by family at Vanderbilt University Hospital on Dec. 27. He was 85. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Magazine honors Yeatman as leader in improving health care
Jeanne Yeatman, MBA, BSN, EMT Jeanne Yeatman, MBA, BSN, EMT, director of Vanderbilt LifeFlight, has been named by HealthLeaders magazine as one of its top 20 people across the nation who is “changing health care for the better.” The annual HealthLeaders 20 list profiles people who are… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Toney to deliver MLK Lecture at VUMC on Jan. 16
Debra Toney, Ph.D., R.N. Debra Toney, Ph.D., R.N., president and founder of TLC Health Care Services of Las Vegas and the immediate past president of the National Black Nurses’ Association, will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on Monday, Jan. 16. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Sternberg set to serve ophthalmology group
Paul Sternberg Jr., M.D. Paul Sternberg Jr., M.D., chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Vanderbilt and director of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, was recently elected president-elect of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He assumed the post Jan. 1. The one-year term will prepare Sternberg, also assistant… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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VHVI at Williamson Medical Center set to open
Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute (VHVI) is relocating its cardiac practice in Williamson County and announcing the addition of five cardiologists. Formerly located at 2105 Edward Curd Lane in Franklin, Tenn., the practice will relocate to 4323 Carothers Pkwy., Suite 405, within the Williamson Tower, the medical office building attached… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Kennedy Center receives three awards from disabilities association
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (Vanderbilt University) The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) recognized the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center with three awards at their annual conference in November. The VKC University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) received the association’s 2011 Council on Community Advocacy Award (COCA), nominated by… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Orthopaedics academy honors Spindler’s research
Kurt Spindler, M.D., Kenneth D. Schermerhorn Professor and vice chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, and the Multicenter Orthopaedic Outcomes Network (MOON) are recipients of the 2012 Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award. Kurt Spindler, M.D. Given by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Research Development… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Stanford’s Südhof to speak on synapse development, function
Thomas Südhof, M.D., the Avram Goldstein Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, will deliver the first Discovery Lecture of 2012 on Thursday, Jan. 12. Thomas Südhof, M.D. His talk, “Neurexins: from synapse formation to synapse function,” will begin… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Sosman named to ‘Dream Team’ of cancer investigators
Jeffrey Sosman, M.D., professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named to a melanoma research Dream Team of cancer investigators supported by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and the Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA). Sosman is among the Dream Team’s principal investigators who will work closely with the… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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VUSN Pinning Ceremony
(photo by Anne Rayner) From left, School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., CNM, Nurse-Midwifery student Samantha Stearns and Nurse-Midwifery Program Director Mavis Schorn, Ph.D., CNM, pose for a photo at the school’s December Pinning Ceremony at Benton Chapel. Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Hope notes
(photo by Susan Urmy) Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center patients, families and staff members recently placed messages of hope and requests for cancer research funds on a “Wall of Hope” at the Cancer Center. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network sponsored the “Wall of Hope” initiative and will… Read MoreJan 5, 2012
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Meador to direct Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Keith Meador, M.D., MPH, has been named director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Keith Meador, M.D., MPH Meador succeeds Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D., Craig-Weaver Professor of Pediatrics, who is stepping down after 12 years as director to devote… Read MoreJan 5, 2012