Excited (& a little saddened) to celebrate the retirement of Vanderbilt School of Nursing & DBMI at Vanderbilt University Professor Patty Sengstack after 13 years of service to Vanderbilt University & Vanderbilt University Nursing Informatics🌐 - CONGRATULATIONS!

Research from Vanderbilt Health finds that children with development disabilities are less likely than others to receive a gold-standard hearing assessment in the first 3 months of hearing care. bit.ly/3XnInhy #NIDCDgrantee

Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital (VBH) has once again received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers. Congratulations to the Bedford team! news.vumc.org/2024/08/22/van…

Today on New Shepard 26 I flew an AstroAccess patch and this challenge coin. This group does amazing things!

.Vanderbilt Health is piloting an AI-powered assistant, DAX Copilot, to help clinicians record patient notes and reduce documentation burden. Dara Mize, chief medical information officer at VUMC, discusses the tool in the latest Discoveries in Medicine article. bit.ly/4cGB3Cd

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That’s our study Ellen Madarang and Justin Watts MD! Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center in collaboration with Moffitt Cancer Center CU Anschutz Medical Campus Vanderbilt Health IRRC and Istituto Tumori #leusm #leukemia

Surreal seeing my face on the cover of the Tennessean . Thanks for covering the story!

Vanderbilt Orthopaedics has an open full-time research faculty position. High preference for applicants with post-doctoral experience and expertise in clinical musculoskeletal, behavioral, functional mobility research apply.interfolio.com/152704

.Vanderbilt Health and OHSU News have been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish a K12 program to train scholars in addiction research. COSTAR is the newest among seven currently funded NIDAnews K12 training programs. bit.ly/4gdvpKA

🚨HAPPENING NOW🚨 CMIO Vanderbilt University Medical Center Dara Mize, MD, MS (Dara Mize) discusses #AI in Medicine for the Vanderbilt Health Endocrine Grand Rounds until 9AM CT. VUMC Department of Medicine

Under a current pilot program, some patients in the ED at Vanderbilt University Hospital are now receiving wireless physiologic monitoring. The aim is to improve vigilance, efficiency and satisfaction for patients and staff. VUMC Emergency Medicine Research #emergencymedicine bit.ly/479OE3L

A new ureteroscope that measures intrarenal pressure has received FDA approval. This technology is helping Vanderbilt Urology physicians receive real-time guidance and will help avoid infectious complications from pyelovenous backflow. discoveries.vanderbilthealth.com/2024/08/new-sc…

We're excited to announce that Dr. Alex Bick will assume the role of Director of the Department of Medicine's Division of Genetic Medicine effective Oct. 1. He will succeed Dr. Nancy Cox who has held the role since she was recruited to Vanderbilt in 2015.

What Doctors Are Excited About in Kidney Cancer Research ⁦TIME⁩ ⁦Brian Rini, MD⁩ ⁦Vanderbilt University Medical Center⁩ time.com/7018184/kidney…

.Vanderbilt Health has received a four-year, $2.23 million federal grant to determine whether a carbohydrate commonly found in human milk can protect the intestinal barrier from injury in adults. The NIDDK-funded study will be led by Fang Yan, MD, PhD. news.vumc.org/2024/08/29/stu…

Excited to share some of the multidisciplinary work we have been doing over the last few years, check out our article in OFID via the link below about updating our IAI Guidelines here at VUMC: Vanderbilt Health Vanderbilt University Medical Center VUMC_IDFellows academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-a…

Congrats to our colleagues leading the way in AI!

Paul Sternberg Jr., MD, professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and former director of Vanderbilt Eye, has been elected executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO). bit.ly/3Thg0za