Monthly Archives: April 2020

The American Red Cross faces a severe blood shortage due to an unprecedented number of blood drive cancellations during the coronavirus pandemic. To help, the American Red Cross will be holding twice weekly blood drives at VUMC in Light Hall. Continue reading →

Bill Cutrer, MD, MED, spent his first day of medical school in the late 1990s in the anatomy lab readying for his first cadaver dissection. Now, thanks to a new curriculum focused on lifelong learning at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, he bel… Continue reading →

Nominations are open for the next Elevate Awards. Nominate an outstanding leader, team or individual for the next Five Pillar Leader, Credo or Elevate Team Award. Continue reading →

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

In May, Vanderbilt LifeFlight will place an ambulance at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH) to help serve non-emergency patients discharged from the hospital and for non-emergency or emergency transfers from VWCH to Nashville area hospitals. Continue reading →

The specially designed theatre program will use well-established behavioral approaches alongside creative theatrical techniques designed to improve social and emotional abilities in people with autism spectrum disorder. Continue reading →

A team of Vanderbilt researchers constructed polygenic risk scores based on genomic variants associated with eight common cancers and concluded they could potentially be used for personalized risk assessments. Continue reading →