Carmen Solorzano named chair of Surgery
Carmen Solorzano, MD, professor of Surgery and chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, has been named chair of Vanderbilt's Department of Surgery. View...
VUMC Culture Survey: Pulse Edition is now live
This year, the survey is much shorter and will feature 38 questions related to how you experience our workplace and should take less than 10 minutes to complete. View...
During NFL Draft weekend, a mass shooting occurred in Nashville. VUMC responded beautifully.
At 2 a.m. Sunday, six gunshot patients poured into the Vanderbilt Emergency Department. It was the fourth mass shooting seen there in the past 15 months. View...
Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health to host Witwatersrand's Adam Habib today
Adam Habib PhD, M.Phil., vice chancellor and principal, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will join Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, Dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Chief Executive Officer of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, director of Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Amos Christie Chair in Global Health in conversation. View...
Salk Institute's Hunter's Discovery Lecture is this afternoon
Tony Hunter, PhD, an internationally recognized leader in the study of cell growth control, will deliver the final spring Flexner Discovery Lecture on Thursday, May 2. View...
Saved as children from fatal heart disease, these adults now face new cardiac challenges
Patients with a form of congenital heart disease -- having only one ventricle (pumping chamber) -- are now living longer lives due to the successful surgical and medical treatments they receive as children. However, as these patients survive to adulthood some of them face a new problem -- heart failure, for which they will require heart transplantation. View...
Expert advice on how to deal with a snakebite: Do stay calm. Don't apply a tourniquet. And back away from the jumper cables.
Warm weather has arrived in Tennessee which means snakebite season is upon us. The venomous snakes native to our region are the pit vipers and consist of copperheads, cottonmouths/water moccasins, and various species of rattlesnakes. View...