Division Of Geriatric Medicine

  • Vanderbilt University

    Initiative stresses importance of advance directives

    While many might prefer to not think about dying, healthcare professionals throughout the United States are encouraging patients and their families to do just that during a national awareness campaign April 16-22 that promotes the importance of completing an advance directive for healthcare. Read More

    Apr 12, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    Powers receives award from Nutrition and Dietetics association

    James Powers, M.D., associate professor of Medicine and chief of Geriatric Medicine at the Veteran Affairs Medical Center, was recently named to receive the Iris Award from the Nashville Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Read More

    Mar 31, 2016

  • Vanderbilt University

    Dugan named to lead Division of Geriatric Medicine

    Laura Dugan, M.D., the Larry L. Hillblom Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), will join the Vanderbilt faculty on April 7 to direct Vanderbilt University’s Division of Geriatric Medicine, a division of the Department of Medicine. Read More

    Apr 3, 2014