How leadership can help reduce health care workplace violence

Jan 16, 2023 at 10:08 pm by Staff

New free handbook charts a path for health care industry leaders to create the safe workplace employees deserve   By AlGene P. Caraulia, Vice President, Integratio.... Read More

Program at VUH seeks to improve medication safety

Jan 16, 2023 at 09:32 pm by Staff

by Matt Batcheldor Vanderbilt Nursing and the Department of Pharmaceutical Services have teamed up to create the Medication Safety Champions program, intended to improve medi.... Read More

The Decision of Where to Seek Care Is Complicated by the Multitude of Options

Jan 16, 2023 at 09:20 pm by Staff

  By Sam Whitehead, Kaiser Health News One evening in February 2017, Sarah Dudley’s husband, Joseph, started to feel sick. He had a high fever, his head and.... Read More

CMS Announces Increase in 2023 in Organizations Benefiting from Coordinated Care in Accountable Care Relationships 

Jan 16, 2023 at 09:00 pm by Staff

  Three Innovative Initiatives Will Help CMS Achieve Goal of 100% of Traditional Medicare Beneficiaries in Accountable Care Relationships by 2030   Today, the Cen.... Read More

Study identifies potential new approach for treating lupus

Jan 15, 2023 at 01:03 pm by Staff

  by Leigh MacMillan Targeting iron metabolism in immune system cells may offer a new approach for treating systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) — the most common f.... Read More

Sharp named Southern Surgical Association president

Jan 15, 2023 at 01:01 pm by Staff

  by Jill Clendening Kenneth Sharp, MD, professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery in the Section of Surgical Sciences, has been named president of the Southern.... Read More

Roden honored for his leadership in precision medicine

Jan 15, 2023 at 12:58 pm by Staff

  by Bill Snyder Dan Roden, MD, Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will receive the PMWC 2023 Pioneer Award J.... Read More

VUMC’s Lang, Stover receive genetic counseling awards

Jan 15, 2023 at 12:55 pm by Staff

by Danny Bonvissuto Two of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s genetic counselors were honored at the 2022 Heart of Genetic Counseling Award ceremony in November. P.... Read More

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant supports single-cell study of rare inherited disease

Jan 15, 2023 at 12:51 pm by Staff

  by Leigh MacMillan A multidisciplinary team led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigator Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, has been awarded a $2 m.... Read More

Study may lead to new diabetes, heart disease treatments

Jan 15, 2023 at 12:43 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Autophagy, a natural process for recycling damaged cellular material, regulates the health of adipose tissue (body fat), which in turn is essential for maintai.... Read More