A multicenter study led by VUMC and Lipscomb College of Pharmacy has identified a potential new treatment for acute heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization and death.

Reported this month in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (@JACCJournals).

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Housing insecurity impacts 1-in-20 patients who go to emergency departments at major medical centers in the Southeast, VUMC Emergency Medicine Research reports in JAMA Network Open.

Yet, there is no universal method to ID homelessness risk or those currently experiencing it.
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Data from activity tracker may enable pediatric orthopaedists, including Nathaniel Lempert, to offer evidence-based recommendations for athletic and exercise restrictions.

Vanderbilt Orthopaedics VUMC Pediatrics

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Through a @Hevolution_f and AFAR grant, Alex Bick, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center will research 'Identifying Clonal Hematopoiesis Resiliency Mechanisms.'
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Sean Donahue, MD, PhD, Sam and Darthea Coleman Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, will become president of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) in July.

Vanderbilt Eye AAPOS

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A new urine test that measures 18 genes associated with #prostatecancer provides higher accuracy for detecting clinically significant cancers than PSA & other biomarker tests, according to a recent JAMA Oncology study.

Jeff Tosoian, MD, MPH is first author of the study.

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Join us for an insightful seminar on informatics entrepreneurship with Dr. Daniel Fabbri on April 30! 🌟 This will be an in-person only event. #informatics #innovation

Julie Bastarache, MD, Assistant Vice President for Clinical & Translational Scientist Development at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has been elected vice president of ASCI for 2024-2025.

Congratulations, Julie Bastarache!

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Today at the The Festival of Genomics & Biodata: how to build world-class datasets through genomic initiatives, w/ Brad Malin (of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and an AllofUsResearch committee co-chair) + Vasiliki N Rahimzadeh, PhD (of BCM Ethics & Policy BCMHouston and a GA4GH #REWS contributor) + our very own Angela Herring Page. #FOGBoston 🧬

Wishing our incredible DBMI Admin staff a 🎉Happy #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay !🎉

Thank you for all you do to help our #informatics programs run smoothly! #AdminProfessionalsDay Vanderbilt Health Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt School of Medicine

This year, more than six years after the VUMC main campus went live on Epic, Vanderbilt Home Care followed suit. This is enabling providers across VUMC to have a more complete view of their patients’ care at home.

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Congratulations to my phenomenal mentors, world-known epidemiologists Dr. Wei Zheng Wei Zheng and Dr. Xiao-Ou Shu Xiao Shu for becoming AAAS fellows! VUMC Epidemiology VUMC Department of Medicine

Save the Date! Pls join us Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center #Stemcell Transplant #Cellulartherapy Symposium with a fantastic group of speakers! Adetola Kassim Muhamed Baljević, MD, FACP Somedeb Ball Bhagirath Dholaria, MD Eden Biltibo Ashwin Kishtagari, MD Carrie Kitko, MD (she/her) Ola Oluwole #cancer #CancerResearch

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Don't miss hearing our very own Dr. Chetkovich present at the AUPN Fall Chairs Session! Here he explains how our #neruology department at VUMC mobilize and retain our APPs in clinic.

Peter J. Embí, M.D. (Peter Embí, MD, MS), chair of DBMI at Vanderbilt University and senior vice president for Research and Innovation, discusses the ethics of AI in health care, including the challenges raised by implementing AI solutions in health care settings.

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It's National Pediatric Transplant Week and we are focused on ending the pediatric transplant waiting list & honoring pediatric donors & their families 💙💚 Thank you to United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) American Society of Transplantation (AST) ASTS Transplant Families for their partnership in #KidsTransplantWeek ! 💗

New program establishes eVisit protocol using asynchronous messaging that may address the concern or lead to a more in-depth telehealth or in-person appointment.

Sara Horst MD, MPH, FACG VUMC Department of Medicine

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Congratulations to my phenomenal mentors Andreas Baumler and Dr. Renee Tsolis for becoming AAAS fellows!! Always great to see amazing scientists who are also the best people being recognized for their contribution to science. 🍾🎉🎊

VUMC is four-time American Association for Men in Nursing award winner as Best Workplaces for Men in Nursing workplace for men in nursing, in recognition of its efforts to create an inclusive workplace for men in the profession.

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Excited to share our latest study published in Blood Advances on Clonal Hematopoiesis and Inflammation in the VasculaturE (CHIVE): a prospective, longitudinal cohort and biorepository at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

➡️ In this preliminary dataset, we've enrolled 181 CH/CCUS pts. Key…