Monthly Archives: April 2019

Carmen Solorzano, MD, professor of Surgery and chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery, has been named chair of Vanderbilt’s Department of Surgery. Continue reading →

Patients with a form of congenital heart disease — having only one ventricle (pumping chamber) — are now living longer lives due to the successful surgical and medical treatments they receive as children. However, as these patients survive to adultho… Continue reading →

At 2 a.m. Sunday, six gunshot patients poured into the Vanderbilt Emergency Department. It was the fourth mass shooting seen there in the past 15 months. Continue reading →

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

Neonatologist Stephen Patrick, MD, MPH, cares for one of the unintended consequences of the rampant opioid crisis — babies born with drug withdrawal — and he’s on a quest to reduce that part of his practice.
He’d prefer not to treat babies with drug… Continue reading →

Each Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Health Plus sponsors food trucks behind Light Hall. Here’s a look at the vendors for May. Continue reading →