Daily Archives: March 18, 2019

State of the Medical Center address video now available

The State of the Medical Center address by Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, is now available for viewing at the Elevate website. Continue reading

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The big back pain question: When should you see a doctor?

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Registration open for “Introduction to VPRAD” course

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Ethics Grand Rounds on “Taking Care of the Difficult Patient” is April 2

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Health Science Education Grand Rounds features Purdue’s Jeff Karpicke, April 1

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Health Policy lecture on tobacco control to be March 26

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VUMC in the news

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

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“Momentum”: Pay it Forward: Bladder cancer research fund honors mentor

Terry Burke was going out on a limb. He planned to hire 30-year-old Curt Thorne for a senior-level position at Cigna. Continue reading

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Team Vanderbilt has news about spring’s charity walks and runs

Team Vanderbilt was created to combine all Vanderbilt-sponsored walks, runs and rides in one place to make participation easier. Continue reading

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Study aims to predict treatment response in epilepsy patients

With the aid of $2.5 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Vanderbilt researchers are on a quest to develop early biomarkers of treatment outcomes for patients with temporal lobe epilepsy based on their individual brain netwo… Continue reading

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