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Share a sweet holiday gift that gives back! Along with festive cards, Gifts from Friends offers Christie Cookie and Bellafina chocolate tins featuring artwork created by patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. These products are a thoughtful way to thank colleagues, recognize partners or celebrate the season with friends and family. Each tin showcases the creativity and spirit of our patients, and proceeds support programs that benefit children and families through Frien

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Since its debut in 1961, Christmas Village has raised more than $15.5 million, positively impacting thousands of lives. Proceeds from this charitable event benefit The Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center and its Pi Beta Phi Rehabilitation Institute, supporting patients with neurological conditions, spinal cord injuries, and stroke recovery. Christmas Village will feature more than 250 merchants. Available items include home decor, handcrafted pottery, clothing for children and adults, jewelry a

Tampa Bay Wave, a nonprofit, zero-equity startup accelerator, today announced a new partnership with Vanderbilt Health through the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation to power its 2026 HealthTech|X cohort. The dual-region program will support startups building technology for behavioral health and addiction, two of the fastest-growing and most urgent categories in the industry. Through the partnership, founders selected for the cohort will have direct access to Vanderbilt researchers, c

Vanderbilt Health leaders André L. Churchwell, MD, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, and Reed A. Omary, MD, MS, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, are helping advance a national effort to move care upstream: from treating disease after it emerges to preventing, interrupting and ultimately eliminating targeted diseases. André L. Churchwell, MD, with MD Anderson’s Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD. Churchwell is on the board of the International Society

The Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab held its sixth annual open house Sept. 15 at its home office on Nashville’s Music Row, welcoming colleagues and friends from the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and the community for hands-on learning about music and health. During the evening, attendees stopped at stations in and around the house to hear live music, learn about research on the cognitive impact of music, see demonstrations of testing equipment such as an electroencephalog

A team of Vanderbilt Health investigators has identified several drugs with previously unrecognized potential as treatments for preterm labor, according to a paper recently published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Shajila Siricilla, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Jennifer Herington, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, led a team that systematically screened 1,191 FDA-approved drugs and found that several candidates met criteria supporting further evaluation as

Edition date: September 23, 2026 (special issue about traffic changes at shuttle lot) September 22, 2026 September 17, 2026 September 15, 2026 September 10, 2026 September 8, 2026 September 3, 2026 September 1, 2026 August 27, 2026 August 26, 2026 (special issue remembering Dolly Parton) August 25, 2026 August 20, 2026 August 19, 2026 (special issue about Open Enrollment) August 18, 2026 August 13, 2026 August 11, 2026 August 6, 2026 August 4

Beginning tonight, for the safety and security of employee vehicles, VUPD will implement a Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) traffic-control strategy for shuttle parking lots 73, 74, and 75 in response to recent vehicle-theft activity. Currently, there are five vehicle entrances and exits serving these lots. VUPD will use barricades or traffic cones to close selected access points and consolidate traffic through the primary entry and exit locations along Natchez Trace, Chi

Wesley Self, MD, MPH (photo by Donn Jones) Vanderbilt Health has been awarded a federal contract providing up to $11.2 million over five years to establish and operate a first-of-its-kind critical illness clinical trials acceleration platform aimed at improving outcomes for patients in the ICU. Each year, more than 4.6 million people in the United States are treated in hospital intensive care units for critical illnesses and injuries that can trigger life-threatening immune and inflammator

It all started with a mole.  After Elizabeth Stebbins’ life changed “dramatically and traumatically,” according to her sister, Kim, she didn’t have access to health insurance. This became an issue when Elizabeth needed medical attention for skin cancer but couldn’t find a dermatologist to work with her on a sliding scale fee. Kim called Vanderbilt Health Dermatology, who referred her to Shade Tree Clinic, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine medical student-run clinic that provides

Today’s Cat of the Day is Jazzy, submitted by Susan Allen of Asthma, Sinus and Allergy. “Jazzy is a 2-year-old calico cat who was found abandoned as a kitten under a truck at my mother-in-law’s house.” Today’s Dog of the Day is Dolly, submitted by Taylor Spitz of Franklin Primary Care. “We adopted Dolly from Williamson Animal Shelter when she was just 3 months old. She is about 7 months old now. She loves playing at the dog park and is very laid back (d

The Teams link is: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fmeet%2F290061670794811%3Fp%3DRnCwlwYf30p7HopJKo%26anon%3Dtrue&type=meet&deeplinkId=e6db7af4-20fb-42d6-a2f4-e86794e68d0e&directDl=true&msLaunch=true&enableMobilePage=true&suppressPrompt=true The email for questions is makingsafetypersonal@vumc.org The post Making Safety Personal office hours held every 3rd Wednesday of the month appeared first on Vanderbilt Health News.

Herbert Christopher The 2026 edition of “Haynes-Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear,” a textbook co-created by a Vanderbilt Health surgeon that is renowned in the field of otology, has been made open access, meaning it is free and available to anyone, thanks to the support of Herbert Christopher. Christopher is a grateful patient and generous donor to Vanderbilt Health, having established several funds through outright gifts and gift planning with his estate. The Herbert O. and Vineta C

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will host two specialized retreats for lung care in October for colleagues across the organization to collaborate, review progress and identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes. The event co-chairs are also co-leaders for the Thoracic Oncology program at Vanderbilt-Ingram: Fabien Maldonado, MD, MSc, Director of Interventional Pulmonology at the Vanderbilt Lung Institute, and Evan Osmundson, MD, PhD, Vice Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Beth Malow, MD, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt Sleep Division, was quoted in Women’s Health about a surprising study from the Journal of Psychopharmacology indicating that heavy caffeine users get deeper non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, even while sleeping less time. The New York Times quoted Dylan Burnette, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, in a story (with videos) about the wonders of the microscopic life all around us. William Sc

Today’s Dog of the Day is Murphy, submitted by Belle DuPell of Virtual Nursing. “Murphy is my cranky old man. He is 8 years old and is an absolute grouch. This is his usual face when he is displeased with what is going on! So judgmental!“ Today’s Cat of the Day is Wolfe, submitted by Bobbie Vance of Neuroscience. “Wolfe is our 14-month-old silver tabby Maine coon cat. He is our gentle giant that loves playing hide ‘n’ seek, fetch, tag, snuggles, a

Do you have an infant or toddler with an older sibling who is diagnosed with autism? If so, you may qualify for the Sibwatch research study. This study is occurring at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and The University of Texas at Austin. Sibwatch includes developmental monitoring with the opportunity for intervention! Find out more here: https://sites.utexas.edu/sibwatch/ Here are the highlights: Sibwatch is enrolling baby siblings of children on the autism spectrum between six mont

For 17 years, Jon Cook has worked as a patient transporter in the Emergency Department at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. A patient transporter moves patients safely between rooms and departments inside a medical facility using wheelchairs, stretchers or beds, according to a general job description. Watching Cook in action makes one thing very clear — he is so much more than the tasks listed for his position. His commitment to serving patients, families and his cowo