Vanderbilt University Medical Center year-end self-evaluations, compliance deadline is tomorrow

VUMC staff will use Performance Central to document their year-end review for fiscal 2016. Staff will self-rate their performance and enter comments for each goal and element of performance and an overall rating for Credo. View...

VUMC Lung Cancer Screening Center earns recognition

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been designated a Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center designation is a voluntary program that recognizes facilities that have committed to practice safe, effective diagnostic care for individuals at the highest risk for lung cancer. View...

Looking cool while protecting health--shades are just what the doctor ordered

When it comes to sun safety, most people are quick to grab a hat and lather on sunscreen. Doctors at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute want consumers to be on the lookout for another protective measure--sunglasses. View...

Portions of 24th Avenue South, Garland Avenue closed through mid-July

A project to install chilled water lines from Vanderbilt's Power Plant to the new Engineering and Science Building and Olin Hall continues, closing parts of 24th Avenue South as well as Garland Avenue for several weeks this summer. View...

From "Momentum": Aiming high--the Cancer Moonshot Initiative

A biochemist pointed to a structure of a protein, one suspected of a link to pancreatic cancer, caught in the act of DNA replication. The molecular images produced at the Vanderbilt Mass Spectrometry Research Center allow scientists to see proteins at precise moments and in complex associations with each other. Some of those proteins have never been studied before. View...

VUMC in the news

A roundup of a few recent positive stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...