Resilience amid COVID: Caring for ourselves as we care for others

Caring for ourselves and for one another will be fundamental to the people of Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the coming weeks as COVID-19 is surging, and over the year as the enterprise adapts further to changes while expanding locally and regionally. View...

VUMC Enterprise Cybersecurity warns of increased threat of cyberattacks

VUMC Enterprise Cybersecurity (VEC) has received credible intelligence regarding the potential for an increased threat of cyberattacks in the coming days that are specifically directed toward the U.S. health care sector. View...

Black Lives Day of Commitment makes an impact

Sponsored by the Office for Diversity Affairs and the Department of Dermatology at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks, the event was held to honor lives lost to racism, provide information about the health disparities facing the African American community and to compel participants to commit to taking a stand against racism. View...

Drive-through flu vaccination option available for employees Nov. 5-7

New this year, VUMC faculty and staff will have the opportunity to register to receive their flu vaccine from Occupational Health at an upcoming three-day drive-through event. View...

Vanderbilt mourns loss of Biostatistics pioneer Federspiel

Charles Foster (Chuck) Federspiel, PhD, a beloved member of the Vanderbilt University faculty for 61 years and founding director of the Division of Biostatistics, died on Oct. 19. He was 91. View...

Former Vanderbilt Prize winner Amon dies at 53

Angelika Amon, PhD, a pioneering cell and molecular biologist and winner of the 2018 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science, died Oct. 29 from cancer. She was 53. View...

"Tough guy" actor gets tender care at VUMC

Actor Hemky Madera has played a villain on "Weeds" and "Queen of the South"; he says his VUMC health care team members are heroes. View...

"Why not me?": Clinical trial participation powers patient's positive attitude

From "Momentum": If you came across Brooke Thomas with her family and friends "eating their way through Nashville," as she describes it, you'd never know she was really there for cancer treatment at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Thomas has metastatic triple-negative breast cancer, and admits that in the beginning she was often asking herself, "Why me?" But she soon flipped the question on its head and asked instead: "Why not me? Why would I be any different from anybody else?" View...

Grant helps expand VI4's Artist-in-Residence program

An innovative Vanderbilt program that brings together scientists and artists with the shared goal of scientific communication is set to expand with support from a three-year grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. View...

VUMC sources interviewed for stories in the Washington Post, NPR, Voice of America, more

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

Survey Sparks: Non-violent patient restraints

Part of a series of Joint Commission readiness tips. For more information, go to: https://www.vumc.org/mysite/ View...