MyVUMC : Today's News for Vanderbilt Employees

Latest Blue Ridge Academic Health Group report, The Behavioral Health Crisis, is available

The report identifies the factors leading to the behavioral health crisis and provides a road map for academic health center leadership to heal our nation. View...

Diagnostic testing for genetic disorders now available on site

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened a Clinical Genomics Laboratory to provide diagnostic testing for genetic disorders. VUMC is one of only a handful of academic medical centers to offer the specialized testing; previously, samples were sent to outside vendors for analysis. View...

Tiny pacemaker helps keep patient's heart in rhythm

Martha Hawks remembers having the anesthesia mask placed on her face at the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. Next thing she knew, a pacemaker with wires that had been in her chest since 1996 was gone, replaced with the world's smallest pacemaker, a wireless cylinder the size of a large vitamin. View...

Biomarker in saliva predicts childhood obesity risk: study

A molecular marker in saliva is associated with the emergence of childhood obesity in a group of preschool-aged Hispanic children. Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS, and colleagues reported the intriguing discovery in the journal BMC Medical Genetics. View...

Isolation guidance for staff exposed to COVID-19

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"Hope": Meeting families where they are

Brookelyn Baker, 10, enjoys being outdoors at her home, especially with her pets -- two alpacas, rabbits and a dog. Several times, Brookelyn and her parents, Melissa and Bryan Moffitt, have made a 90-minute drive from their home in Clarksburg, Tennessee, to Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville. View...

REMINDER: Assessment site locations available for suspected COVID-19 screening

Patients who are seen in Vanderbilt's outpatient clinics and are found to have symptoms of COVID-19 should be referred to one of the designated assessment sites and not the Emergency Departments. View...