Rush named interim Children's Hospital president
Meg Rush, MD, MMHC, who began her career at Vanderbilt University Medical Center more than three decades ago, has been named interim president of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, effective immediately. Rush succeeds Luke Gregory, MBA, MHA, the hospital's longtime chief executive officer who died Oct. 18 following a lengthy battle with lymphoma. View...
Open Enrollment ends today
You have until 11:59 p.m. tonight to make your benefit elections in My VUMC Benefits. View...
Committee appointed for Department of Emergency Medicine chair search
Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, President and CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, has appointed a 15-member committee to conduct a national search for a new chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. View...
VUMC reaches milestone 6,000th kidney transplant
Vanderbilt performed its first kidney transplant on Oct. 3, 1962, when a kidney from a deceased child was transplanted into an adult with renal failure. The occasion was the first organ transplant in Nashville and one of the first in the South. View...
Rheumatology's Fuchs dies at 64; remembered for dedication to medicine, family
He attended the Colorado School of Mines where he completed a chemical engineering degree as a student athlete swimmer. He earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1981. After meeting his wife, Cathy, they made Nashville and Vanderbilt their home. View...
Sunday's time change can be a bear. Here's how to keep from feeling like hibernating.
The time to begin adjust to the time change is several days before it happens, said Raghu Upender, MD, medical director of the Vanderbilt Sleep Disorders Center. Getting extra exposure to sunlight can help reset the biological clock and cope with the darker evenings. The best advice for resetting the internal clock is to get light exposure in the morning. View...
Drill scheduled for communicable disease response, Nov. 4
The primary focus of this year's exercise will be the transport of a highly infectious disease patient from the Communicable Disease Response Unit (CDRU), located on the second floor of the Round Wing in Medical Center North, to another treatment facility. View...
2019 VUMC Voice 7-to-12-year-olds' Halloween art contest winners announced
These pictures belong in a museum where people can come and see 'em. They really are a screa-um. View...
Keeping children safe on the scariest night of the year
Young children are more likely to be struck and killed by a car on Halloween than on any other night of the year. How to keep your children safe, and to be a safe driver tonight. View...
"Go for the Gold" offers up to $240 wellness credit; deadline is today
There are just a few days left to Go for the Gold. Faculty and staff paying for Vanderbilt Health Plan benefits in 2020 can earn up to $240 Wellness Credit and Platinum Benefit for completing Go for the Gold by Oct. 31, 2019. View...