The Society of Urologic Oncology has honored Joseph Smith, Jr., MD, professor of Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, with the prestigious Huggins Medal. The organization bestowed its highest honor upon Smith for his lifetime contributions to the progress in treatment for patients with genitourinary neoplasms.
Steve Corbeil, president and CEO of HCA TriStar Division, was recently appointed to the Federation of American Hospitals Board of Directors. The FAH is the national representative of more than 1,000 investor-owned or managed community hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.
The Greater Nashville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen has named Justin Balko, PharmD, PhD, an assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, a member of the 2016 Class of Pink Tie Guys. The honorees are community leaders who have a personal connection to breast cancer and are committed to making a difference in the effort to find a cure for the disease. Balko, who is Leader of Molecular Oncology in the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies at VICC, has already received multi-year financial grants from Komen to support his breast cancer research.
For two decades, Publix Super Markets, Inc. has worked alongside the March of Dimes to give all babies a healthy start in life. This year, during their annual three week in-store March for Babies fundraising campaign, Publix customers and associates raised $6,050,470, an 18 percent increase from 2014, bringing their 20 year total to an impressive contribution of $57 million for stronger, healthier babies.
This fall, Saint Thomas Health hit a major milestone, serving the 10,000th patient through the “Our Mission in Motion” mobile mammography unit. Nearly half, 46 percent to be exact, of the mammograms were provided as charity care.
POZ magazine, an award-wining publication for people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, recently honored 100 individuals from across the nation making a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Joseph Interrante, PhD of Nashville CARES and Larry Frampton of Nashville Regional AIDS Planning Council have both been named to the POZ 100.
Bapsi Chakravarthy, MD, professor and residency director of Radiation Oncology, has been named a Fellow by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). She is one of 17 ASTRO members named to the 2015 class of Fellows.
Independent hospital watchdog The Leapfrog Group recently identified five TriStar Health hospitals as earning an ‘A’ grade for patient safety in this elite national ratings program. TriStar Centennial, TriStar Skyline, TriStar Southern Hills, TriStar StoneCrest and TriStar Summit medical centers all received top mars.
A clinical practice improvement module developed at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) was one of five national winners in the inaugural Practice Innovation Challenge sponsored by the American Medical Association and the Medical Group Management Association. The UTHSC “SafeMed” module, which encourages safe and effective medication use in an outpatient setting, could be used in clinics around the country in the future through the AMA’s STEPS Forward initiative.