"Campaign Against Childhood Cancer" launched
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt publicly launched a $15 million childhood cancer campaign this week. A Campaign Against Childhood Cancer: Soaring Higher, Dreaming Bigger builds on the strengths of Children's Hospital by creating space dedicated to clinical care for pediatric and adolescent cancers and continuing to address the needs of families in our region. View...
Team seeks to reduce access barriers for patients and clinicians
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has stellar health care providers, but if patients can't get appointments to see those providers in a timely manner, that doesn't mean much. Fortunately, a Patient Access Services (PAS) team has been working behind the scenes throughout 2018 to knock down barriers to accessing care. View...
New clinics expand women's health services
To meet the growing demand for specialized and comprehensive women's care services, Vanderbilt's Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has opened three new clinics focusing on peripartum and perineal disorders, infertility and polycystic ovary syndrome. View...
Lecture in honor of first African-American resident, Harold Jordan, is tomorrow
The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has established a named lecture, the Dr. Harold Jordan Diversity and Inclusion Lecture, named after the first African-American resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...
Katrina Robertson went from death's door to a full life. Her story is one of thousands from the first 25 years of the VCCC
The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic opened its doors 25 years ago when AIDS was fatal and hope was rare. Today the clinic serves thousands of patients and is an international model in the treatment of people with HIV. View...
"My Southern Health": What a woman heart attack survivor wants us to teach our daughters
The first time Jessica Biggs remembers someone talking to her about the symptoms of heart attacks in women, she was 32 -- and having one herself. View...