Year: 2014

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is among a handful of organizations engaged to provide expertise and data to the Sentinel System, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration program designed to monitor the safety of drugs and medical devices that have reached market. Sentinel uses electronic health records and health care billing… Read More

David Wyatt, MPH, R.N. Vanderbilt University Hospital’s David Wyatt, MPH, R.N., is set to receive the highest individual honor in perioperative nursing. Wyatt will receive the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 2015 award for Excellence in Perioperative Nursing at the organization’s national conference in March in… Read More

Nancy Evans Nancy Evans, chief information officer, VUMC Hospitals and Clinics, is among an inaugural group of five women selected for Health Data Management magazine’s new Women in Healthcare IT “recognition program.” The magazine’s editors selected five honorees based on a review of nominations solicited from readers. Read More

  George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D. George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in cellular “engineering” at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 30. Daley’s talk, entitled “CellNet: Enhancing Cellular Engineering through… Read More

Michael Longaker, M.D., director of the Stanford Program in Regenerative Medicine and the Children’s Surgical Research Program, described methods for minimizing scarring through tissue repair and engineering at his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. (Photo by Anne Rayner)… Read More

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt launched the “Growing to New Heights” fundraising campaign in support of a four-floor building expansion. Read More

The grants, which total $830,000, are part of the non-profit organization’s commitment to young scientists, as well as established investigators who are searching for more effective breast cancer therapies. Read More

New insights to the workings of a protein that moves neurotransmitters across the nerve cell membrane could aid the design of more effective antidepressants. Read More

The transgenic mouse, into which was inserted a rare human genetic variation in the dopamine transporter, could lead to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of these all-too-common brain disorders. Read More

The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt launched the “Growing to New Heights” fundraising campaign Wednesday night (Oct. 22) at a celebration in support of a four-floor building expansion. That expansion will help advance the size and scope of the hospital’s specialized pediatric health care programs. Patients and their… Read More

Watch video of a talk by Mark Wallace, Ph.D., “Do You See What I Hear? The Merging of the Senses.” This talk focuses on how our behaviors and perceptions are greatly shaped by this process of “multisensory integration,” and provides insights into how the brain combines information across the senses. This… Read More

A team headed by Eugene Vorobeychik, assistant professor of computer science and computer engineering, uses game theory and big data to optimize policing. Read More

Overweight women are more likely to work in lower-paying and more physically demanding jobs; less likely to get higher-wage, public-facing positions; and make less money compared to men and average-size women. Read More

  Nancy Brown, M.D. Vanderbilt University’s Nancy J. Brown, M.D., chair and physician-in-chief of the Department of Medicine, and James E. Crowe Jr., M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, are among 70 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the organization… Read More

Watch video of “Men’s Health and the Politics of Masculinity,” a forum presented by The Center for Medicine, Health and Society on Oct. 21 from Furman Hall. Jonathan Metzl, director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society, moderates. Read More

Watch video of Afrofuturism in Black Theology discussion in the Vanderbilt Divinity School Reading Room. Panelists: Prof. Tracy Sharpley-Whiting, Prof. Victor Anderson, Author Ytasha Womack, Prof. Tamura Lomax, Prof. Herbert Marbury, Prof. Nettrice Gaskins and Bishop Joseph Walker, Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Read More

Nirav Parikh, BS’04, and his friends graduated ten years ago, yet the bonds formed during their time at Vanderbilt grow deeper each Memorial Day. Vanderbilt Magazine has the story of how an annual trip to a Texas lake house became the setting for reunions that reaffirm lifelong friendships. Read More

Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series ­ An Exploration of Burden of Justice: 1863­ which took place on October 16. Some 10,500 armed conflicts occurred during the Civil War, ranging from battles to minor skirmishes. Burden of Justice: 1863 tells the… Read More

Carrie Romero of Columbia, Tennessee, is running for her life. In 1997, when she was 28, Romero was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy — a heart muscle disease that puts her at risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). Read More

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria can share resources to cause chronic infections, Vanderbilt investigators have discovered. The findings shed light on a long-standing question in infectious diseases and may inform new treatment strategies. Read More