School Of Medicine

Levi Watkins Jr. (Vanderbilt) Levi Watkins Jr., professor of cardiac surgery and dean of postdoctoral programs at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, will speak on “Human Defibrillation: History and Evolution” at noon Tuesday, Oct. 11, in 208 Light Hall. The talk marks the 10th annual Levi Watkins Jr. Lecture. Read More

Fred Ochieng’ (left) and Milton Ochieng’. (Dana Johnson/Vanderbilt) Milton Ochieng’, a 2008 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine graduate and co-founder of the Lwala Community Alliance, will speak at two sessions of this year’s Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New… Read More

Nominations for the Levi Watkins Jr. Student Award are now being accepted. Read More

At the School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting May 25, Jeff Balser, vice chancellor for health affairs and the dean of the School of Medicine, told a packed Light Hall audience that Vanderbilt has made significant progress toward its priority goals of endowed support for chairs and student scholarship, but there is still work to be done. Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos presented the Founder’s Medals to the top scholars from Vanderbilt University’s undergraduate and professional schools during Commencement on Friday, May 13. Read More

Sixteen retiring faculty members were recognized during Vanderbilt’s May 13 Commencement ceremony when the university honored their years of service and bestowed on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Robert W. Blanning, professor of management, emeritus Blanning’s global experience combines the worlds of… Read More

Idea for community garden grows into reality Last year, the Vanderbilt Initiative for Vegetarian Awareness (VIVA) had the idea to create a Vanderbilt Community Garden to grow crops for Vanderbilt students in organic and sustainable ways.  This month, the garden became a reality with the first planting. The… Read More

The discovery of a new gene that can influence a person's risk for developing epilepsy could improve diagnostic tools and open the door for new therapies. Read More

Vanderbilt Heart will soon begin testing the safety of a novel, non-surgical approach to treating aortic stenosis, a common heart problem caused by an abnormal narrowing of the heart's aortic valve. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers from the Department of Pediatrics, Peabody College and the Divinity School joined with parent advocates for a panel discussion on the ethical considerations of "curing" disabilities. Read More

A new study finds no link between childhood vaccinations and a type of metabolism disorder. The study is the latest to provide evidence of vaccination safety. Read More

(stock.xchng) After years of confusion about the safety of soy food consumption by breast cancer survivors, a large new study found that eating soy foods did not increase the risk of cancer recurrence or death among breast cancer survivors. The study was presented at the American Association for Cancer… Read More

The Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Spring Faculty Meeting, including the announcement and presentation of VUSM faculty awards, will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 25, in Room 208 Light Hall. Read More

John Stein, President, Bank of America, Tennessee (left) and Jeff Balser, M.D., Ph.D., vice chancellor for Health Affairs and dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (right), sign the beam with patient Dalton Waggoner. (Vanderbilt University) The Monroe Carell Jr. Hospital at Vanderbilt officially launched its… Read More

The Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach puts science in the hands of students Angela Eeds, director of the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt, gives instruction to Chelsea Guo and Augtonia Coleman, freshmen at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet High School. Photo by Daniel Dubois They treated him like a rock… Read More

Although an evaluation of existing treatments for children with autism spectrum disorders found positive results in some studies, better information is needed to target the right treatments to specific children. Read More

Researchers have identified a gene that increases the risk for developing sick sinus syndrome – the most common cause for implanting a cardiac pacemaker. Read More

In this week’s VUCast: Will 11 couples be torn apart? Who’s number one? And, remembering the families in Japan. [vucastblurb]  … Read More

Vanderbilt has received a $10.3 million federal grant to establish a national research resource for mass spectometry. Read More

Brain Blast 2011 featured 35 different ways to learn about the brain, guided by Vanderbilt neuroscience graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members and other volunteers. More than 100 neuroscientists participated. Read More