First Listen: the Vanderbilt Health DNA podcast

A new podcast -- Vanderbilt Health DNA: Discoveries in Action -- will be launching in the coming weeks. It's a 10-episode series exploring the big ideas and breakthroughs from people who live and breathe what they do, and think without boundaries. Episodes dive into topics like vaccines, technologies and visions shaping how and when people get care, unconscious bias, health equity, imposter syndrome, neurosurgery, COVID-19, the vanguard of imagining the future of inclusive care and health systems, and more. View...

Study to explore how COVID affects cognition over time

The Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction and Survivorship Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center is following patients who have been hospitalized for COVID-19 over time to see if they develop long-term cognitive impairment, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). View...

Katherine Amidon named 2020 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar

Katherine Amidon, a PhD student in the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the 2020 Vanderbilt Prize Student Scholar. View...

LifeFlight adds nurse practitioners, flight physicians to expand flight crew

Patients treated and transported by Vanderbilt LifeFlight are now receiving a higher level of care thanks to the credentialing of more than 20 flight nurses as nurse practitioners and the addition of a flight physician at several LifeFlight bases. View...