Daily Archives: April 15, 2019

Registration open for StrategyShare19, set for June 18

StrategyShare19, an annual, interactive event to showcase innovations and initiatives to advance Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Strategic Directions, is focusing this year on Design for Patients and Families, one of the four Strategic Direction… Continue reading

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Credit Union raises rates on deposit accounts

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“Careers in Pharmaceutical Discovery Day” is April 29

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Tony Slack named Associate Vice President for Revenue Cycle Access Services

Tony Slack has been named Associate Vice President for Revenue Cycle Access Services for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Continue reading

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Harvard’s Christine Seidman to receive 2019 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science

Christine Seidman, MD, whose lab has identified the genetic causes of several human heart diseases including cardiomyopathy (potentially fatal enlargement of the heart) is the recipient of the 2019 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science. Continue reading

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New VUMC internet connection coming tonight

On Tuesday, May 21, a new internet connection for Vanderbilt University Medical Center will go into service. Currently, the Medical Center shares an Internet connection with Vanderbilt University. This activity is part of continuing efforts to establis… Continue reading

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How do cancer biomarkers get into the bloodstream? Not the way we thought.

A report by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has shattered conventional wisdom about how cells, including cancer cells, shed DNA into the bloodstream. Continue reading

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Banquet honors student partnership with local nonprofits

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A VUMC-led team took on a challenge to develop a Zika virus treatment in 90 days. They finished 12 days early.

In January scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and colleagues in Boston, Seattle and St. Louis were given an audacious goal to develop — in 90 days — a protective antibody-based treatment that potentially will stop the spread of the Zi… Continue reading

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Robin Steaban: Culture Survey ensures leaders hear from everyone

MyVUMC PhotoThe first in a series of Q&A interviews with leaders to talk about why all employees should take the Culture Survey: Pulse Edition, May 1-15

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