Flulapalooza is tomorrow
Vanderbilt University Medical Center will hold its ninth annual Flulapalooza mass influenza vaccination event on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The event will be held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. in a tent between Light Hall and the Veteran's Administration (VA) Hospital. View...
VUMC's Jahangir elected chair of the Metropolitan Board of Health of Nashville and Davidson County
Alex Jahangir, MD, MMHC, medical director of the Vanderbilt Center for Trauma, Burn and Emergency Surgery, has been elected chair of the Metropolitan Board of Health of Nashville and Davidson County. View...
Drea Gaffney thinks of her own father every time she speaks with patients about their bills
Credo Award winner Drea Gaffney keeps one thing in mind as she goes about her job with Patient Financial Services at Vanderbilt University Medical Center: nobody chooses to be sick or injured, and patients and their families deal with a lot of stress surrounding a hospital admission. View...
Team Vanderbilt Walk Fair is today; free T-shirt for sign-up
The Team Vanderbilt Walk Fair with information and sign-up opportunities for all upcoming walks and runs will be Sept. 24 from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on the Medical Center Plaza. View...
UPDATE: Information about 403(b) Plan Settlement
In late August a number of faculty members and other employees received a notice regarding a class action settlement from the Settlement Administrator that has been appointed in the matter. We have recently learned that the Settlement Administrator inadvertently sent settlement notices to a number of current participants in the VUMC plan. View...
New telehealth initiative aims to enhance cancer care in rural areas
Debra Friedman, MD, E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Pediatric Oncology and co-leader of the Cancer Health Outcomes and Control Research Program, and Tuya Pal, MD, Ingram Professor of Medicine and associate director for Cancer Health Disparities, are leading an effort to improve cancer care in rural areas with a telehealth initiative supported with a $3.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). View...
Study shows heat therapy helps ease supine hypertension
Heat therapy has been shown to lower high blood pressure in patients with a rare condition called supine hypertension, or elevated blood pressure when lying down, according to preliminary results of a Vanderbilt study. View...
"Vanderbilt Medicine": Keeping pace: VUMC works to keep pace with Nashville's explosive growth
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the largest academic medical centers in the Southeast, managing nearly 2.5 million patient visits each year, is meeting the growth head-on, working to treat an influx of more patients where they live and work. View...
VUMC in the news
A roundup of a few recent stories from the press about Vanderbilt University Medical Center. View...