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Vanderbilt launches health information software competition

Vanderbilt University announced today a $20,000 worldwide contest called the Health App Challenge, aimed to transform patient clinical summaries into easy to understand personalized health information. Read More

Nobel laureate describes decades-long pursuit of cholesterol regulation

Nobel laureate Michael Brown, M.D., describes his quest to understand cholesterol during the 2013 Earl W. Sutherland lecture. (Photo by Susan Urmy)… Read More

Huizinga to lead VMG Quality and Patient Safety

Mimi Huizinga, M.D., MPH Mimi Huizinga, M.D., MPH, assistant professor of Medicine, has been appointed to the newly created role of medical… Read More

Smith to lead Vanderbilt Network Services

Janice Smith, R.N., M.Ed. Janice Smith, R.N., M.Ed., has been appointed to the new role of chief administrative officer of Vanderbilt Network… Read More

Vanderbilt’s Ken Young earns top patient safety credential

Ken Young, MBA The Certification Board for Professionals in Patient Safety (CBPPS) is recognizing Vanderbilt’s Ken Young, MBA, as a… Read More

Budding songwriters needed for Songs from the Heart Concert

Cancer patients, family members and cancer health care workers all have a story to tell. Those who want to share their stories… Read More

Epilepsy Program receives key quality recognition

The Vanderbilt Epilepsy Program has maintained its designation as a Level 4 center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC)… Read More

Film festival highlights medical students’ work

Replica Oscars were presented at the first annual "Stories in Science" film screening. (Photo by Susan Urmy) First-year Vanderbilt University School of… Read More

A Final Emphasis

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s Emphasis Project celebrated its final iteration in a poster presentation April 25, in the north lobby… Read More

Female scientists share advice at first-ever symposium

Sarah Shuck, Stephanie Hirst Deluca, Madeleine Joullié, Ph.D., (University of Pennsylvania), Keersten Davis, Sonja Brooks and Michelle Sulikowski gather after Joullié's presentation,… Read More

National cancer prevention study enrolls 168 at Vanderbilt

Rose Vick, MSN, instructor at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, has blood drawn during Cancer Prevention Study-3 enrollment on April 25. Sponsored… Read More

Awards given at Postdoctoral Research Symposium

(Photo by Susan Urmy) Jennifer Noto, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Richard Peek, M.D., receives the 2013 Postdoc… Read More

White coat donors recognized

Reid Thompson, M.D., center, and wife Lorraine Ware, M.D., front, share some wisdom with their white coat recipients, first-year Vanderbilt University School… Read More

Visiting Scholar Parello receives France’s highest honor

  Annick Suzor-Weiner, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Embassy of France, presents the Legion of Honor Medal to Joseph Parello,… Read More

Blackburn presented ophthalmology Visionary Award

Paul Sternberg, M.D., George Weeks Hale Professor of Ophthalmology, chair of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Eye… Read More

Happy Memories

David Posch, CEO of Vanderbilt University Hospital and Clinics, was one of many well-wishers to congratulate Margurite L. Douglas, medical technologist in… Read More

Nashville Dancin’ to benefit Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt

On April 23, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean announced the return of popular music series, “Nashville Dancin’ presented by Dollar General.” The free… Read More

Contest celebrates employment success among people with disabilities

Voting is now open for Tennessee Employment Idol, which celebrates employment success stories among people with disabilities. The finalists are featured in two-… Read More

Vanderbilt wins $9.3M DARPA contract to evolve tools for military vehicle design

Vanderbilt University engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program. Read More

HOD Nashville Impact Awards May 8

The HOD Nashville Impact Awards will recognize the Vanderbilt HOD student whose Nashville-based internship project is deemed the most impactful. Read More