Profiles

Vanderbilt nursing professor collaborates with VUMC ICU Recovery Center on $3.6M study of telemedicine and post-intensive care syndrome recovery

Oct 28, 2023 at 11:24 pm by Staff

  Leanne Boehm, PhD’16 and assistant professor of nursing, has received a grant of more than $3.6 million over five years to examine, with her collaborators, the e.... Read More

Michelle Stepp Named Alumni Relations Coordinator for WGU 

Oct 28, 2023 at 11:10 pm by Staff

  NASHVILLE – Online, nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU) has announced that Michelle Stepp has been named alumni relations coordinato.... Read More

Frank Stevenson elected chairman of the Metro Hospital Authority Board

Oct 28, 2023 at 10:03 pm by Staff

  Nashville - Nashville General Hospital (NGH) welcomes new board leadership to the Metro Hospital Authority Board. Pastor Frank Stevenson, senior pastor of Friends.... Read More

Bryan Shepherd’s research to validate EHR data receives MERIT Award from the NIH

Oct 23, 2023 at 06:59 pm by Staff

  by Paul Govern   Bryan Shepherd, PhD, professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has received a MERIT Award,.... Read More

Toddra Liddell helps dialysis patients manage mental health issues during treatment

Oct 23, 2023 at 06:50 pm by Staff

  By Danny Bonvissuto   Three years after Toddra Liddell, APRN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, became a family nurse practitioner at Vanderbilt Dialysis Clinic – East, sh.... Read More

VUMC’s Wei Kelly Wu, Siru Liu named 2023 Stat Wunderkinds

Oct 23, 2023 at 06:42 pm by Staff

  By Paul Govern   Vanderbilt University Medical Center surgical resident Wei Kelly Wu, MD, and Siru Liu, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics, have.... Read More

Powers announces plan to step down from key diabetes leadership roles

Oct 23, 2023 at 06:37 pm by Staff

  By Jill Clendening   Alvin C. Powers, MD, Joe C. Davis Professor of Biologic Science and professor of Medicine, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, has announc.... Read More

Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton and Allison McCoy elected fellows of ACMI

Oct 23, 2023 at 06:35 pm by Staff

  By Mia Garchitorena   Vanderbilt’s Ellen Clayton, MD, JD, and Allison McCoy, PhD, have been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (A.... Read More

Ardent appoints veteran healthcare executives to senior leadership roles  

Oct 23, 2023 at 03:22 pm by Staff

  NASHVILLE – Ardent Health Services today announced the appointments of Anika Gardenhire, RN, BSN, MMCI, as chief digital information officer and J.... Read More

Ellen Wright Clayton, MD: How to overcome mistrust of medical science

Oct 16, 2023 at 02:37 pm by Staff

   By Bill Snyder The public’s mistrust of medical science, including vaccination, is being driven in part by a top-down research enterprise that does not gi.... Read More