VUMC division chief heading west
Posted on November 19, 2009 at 8:16 am
D. Brent Polk, chief of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center division of pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition named after him, will next spring decamp to SoCal to chair the department of pediatrics at USC.
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Vanderbilt opens $169M critical care tower
Posted on November 5, 2009 at 9:42 am
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is cutting the ribbon on its 11-story critical care tower today. The $169 million building has 141 new acute-care inpatient rooms and 12 surgical rooms will immediately house VUMC’s surgical intensive care, neurological intensive care and medical intensive care units.
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Headline homes: Nashville’s top sales, September 2009
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Health care names, including some high-profile VUMC docs and a big fish at Community Health, dominate our latest look at who’s buying Middle Tennessee priciest abodes.
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George Allen steps down as Vandy neurosurgery leader
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 7:55 amFrom Carol Bartoo:
Allen is stepping down after more than 25 years as chair, effective Jan. 1, 2010, and Reid Thompson, M.D., professor of Neurosurgery, has been named to succeed him.
“George Allen hired Reid Thompson with the idea of this leadership succession plan,” said R. Daniel Beauchamp, M.D., chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences. “Once Reid got here and started working, it was clear he would be such a leader and could take on the role, so that it would be a very smooth transition.”
Thompson was trained at Johns Hopkins and completed a research fellowship in neuro-oncology there, before heading to Stanford University where he completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular surgery. From 1997 to 2002, he was at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he directed neurosurgical trauma and co-directed vascular neurosurgery.
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Vanderbilt creates senior public health position
Posted on September 28, 2009 at 10:38 am
Robert Dittus, head of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s division of general medicine and public health, has also been named the institution’s first assistant vice chancellor for public health. The post combines elements of policy, advocacy and education.
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Vandy researchers study effect of lithium on brain cells
Posted on April 1, 2009 at 5:26 pmFrom US News:
Lithium may help protect brain cells when people with brain cancer undergo radiation therapy, a new study suggests.
Cranial radiation therapy can cause long-term neurological effects, particularly in children, according to researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. But they explain that lithium has brain-protective properties that might reduce these side effects.
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Respect from the elders
Posted on March 26, 2009 at 3:03 pmVanderbilt University Medical Center and Baptist Hospital have made the list of the AARP’s Top 125 hospitals in major metro areas.
The survey was part of the research for a new book from Consumers’ Checkbook (www.checkbook.org), called Consumers’ Guide to Hospitals, which uses government safety statistics and data on death and complication rates, along with survey results, to compare and rank hospitals in the nation’s largest metro areas. The final list of top 125 hospitals was selected from 1,467 acute-care hospitals in the nation’s largest population areas. Key measures included:
* Ratings by patients
* Ratings by physicians
* Death rates and adverse-outcome rates
* Doing proper tests and procedures
* Major medical school affiliation
* Leapfrog Group safety standards
The only other Tennessee facilities making the list were Memphis’ Methodist University Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital.
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Almost heaven…
Posted on November 21, 2008 at 9:58 amRahul Gupta, an assistant professor at Meharry and Vanderbilt, has been offered the executive director job by the Charleston-Kanawha Board of Health in West Virginia.
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