Year: 2016
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Over 50? Let us schedule your colonoscopy
March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and the goal of the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Center is to encourage and help all Vanderbilt employees to schedule their colonoscopies. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Julia Serano presents ‘Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive’ March 22
The 2016 Cuninggim Lecture on Women in Culture and Society is scheduled for March 22, when the Women's Center also will hand out its annual Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Leadership Award, Mentoring Award, and the Mary Jane Werthan Award. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Melanoma response to immune therapy
Melanoma-specific expression of a certain protein identifies tumors that are more responsive to an immune therapy. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Healthy Eating at Work webinar March 16; Break Room Challenge March 23
Join Health Plus' celebration of National Nutrition Month, and make healthy eating the norm. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Department of Medicine Mini-Research Retreat is March 12
The Department of Medicine's Mini-Research Retreat is Saturday, March 12, from 8 a.m. until noon in Light Hall 208. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Bill Nye, ‘The Science Guy,’ to sign latest book on campus March 31
Barnes & Noble at Vanderbilt welcomes science educator, TV personality, comedian and political commentator Bill Nye to the store March 31 for a signing of his latest best-seller. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Photos from the Arab Spring to support cross-cultural discussions at Vanderbilt
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce a recent gift from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation of two photographs by Shirin Neshat, which are intended to spark cross-cultural dialogue about international issues and religious and political divides and to facilitate collaboration between academic departments at the university and the gallery. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Diverse perspectives on abstract art focus of exhibition March 17-May 26
“Close Readings: American Abstract Art from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Collection” will feature the unique interpretations of more than 35 faculty and students from disciplines across the university, providing fresh, new insights into how we look at art. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Study reveals possible ‘dimmer switch’ drug for Rett syndrome
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have relieved symptoms in a mouse model of Rett syndrome with a drug-like compound that works like the dimmer switch in an electrical circuit. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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First VICC cancer patient treated with new immunotherapy
For the first time, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators have used a cancer patient’s own re-engineered immune cells to treat a form of blood cancer by stimulating the immune system. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Study seeks to ease pediatric HIV infection rates in Africa
Mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is still a major problem in resource-limited, rural areas of the world where health care providers are scarce. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Making their day
Joe Don Rooney of the group Rascal Flatts came the closest to a hole-in-one at the inaugural Million Dollar Hole-in-One for Charity event at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Feb. 11 in California. Rooney chose Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt as the beneficiary of his $50,000 prize. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Anesthesiology debuts new patient outcomes system
The Vanderbilt Anesthesiology and Perioperative Informatics Research (VAPIR) Division has launched a novel system that connects clinicians in the Department of Anesthesiology to their patients’ outcomes. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Meeting highlights growth of VUMC’s social media efforts
Leaders of social media programs at 15 major hospitals and health systems gathered in Nashville last week as Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) hosted the “founders meeting” of a new national organization. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Happy anniversary
A special event was held last week celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vanderbilt’s liver transplant program. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Schizophrenia expert Coyle set for next Flexner Discovery Lecture
Joseph Coyle, M.D., an expert in the neurobiology of serious mental illness, will deliver the next Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, March 10. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Study finds health literacy efforts ease readmission rates
Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston recently collaborated on a study analysis to determine the effect of a tailored, pharmacist-delivered health literacy intervention on unplanned hospital readmission or emergency department visit following discharge. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Sandberg elected president-elect of Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists
Warren Sandberg, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Anesthesiology and professor of Biomedical Informatics and Surgery, has been elected president-elect of the Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists. Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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VUMC’s Chekmenev elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
Vanderbilt researcher Eduard Chekmenev, Ph.D., has been elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) for his efforts to develop imaging markers for cancer and lung disease using hyperpolarized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Read MoreMar 3, 2016
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Association of Academic Physiatrists honors Jain
Nitin Jain, M.D., MSPH, received the 2016 Young Academician Award at the recent annual meeting of the Association of Academic Physiatrists. Read MoreMar 3, 2016