VUMC Culture Survey: Pulse Edition starts tomorrow

The VUMC Culture Survey: Pulse Edition takes place May 1-15. 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...

Kristie Kuzy decided to donate a kidney to a stranger. Three people got new kidneys as a result.

Kuzy's generosity initiated the first three-recipient kidney transplant chain in the history of VUMC. The amazing and improbable true story of how it all fell into place. View...

New technology helps pediatric patients who require frequent X-rays

Chloie Jacobs, 9, prepares for a follow-up scan of her congenital scoliosis -- a sideways curvature of the spine present at birth -- and climbs into a new X-ray imaging device at the pediatric orthopaedic clinic at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. View...

"Vanderbilt Medicine": Handle with care: socioeconomic factors and drug withdrawal in babies

Neonatologist Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, cares for one of the unintended consequences of the rampant opioid crisis -- babies born with drug withdrawal -- and he's on a quest to reduce that part of his practice. He'd prefer not to treat babies with drug withdrawal, or neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), but it's part of the job. View...

VUMC in the news

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