http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporterVanderbilt Medical Center's Weekly Newspaper - Current Issue - May 18, 2012http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/sites/reporter/images/reporterlogo-medium.gifhttp://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter14422http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12733http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12733<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12733"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511AR2499.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=75d4210ffbd8521abf7fc585dba1b70d" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>The 99 members of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's class of 2012 may be remembered for their great depth of caring. </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12733"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511AR2499.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=75d4210ffbd8521abf7fc585dba1b70d" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12734http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12734<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12734"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120510SU062.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=9ab70c92558fe9394bd210e85506d02f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., dean of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, told graduates during commencement ceremonies last week that, "advanced practice nurses, nurse scientists and nurse managers are crucial to health care and to our country." </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12734"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120510SU062.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=9ab70c92558fe9394bd210e85506d02f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12735http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12735<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12735"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511JH0009.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=d8f9babab23357a5283371a56ec18c6f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>A Doctor of Philosophy degree may mark the highest level of academic achievement, but many students graduating with Ph.D.s in the biomedical sciences say that the most valuable lessons learned in graduate school had little to do with science. </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12735"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511JH0009.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=d8f9babab23357a5283371a56ec18c6f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12736http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12736Reed Omary, M.D., M.S., professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and vice chair of Research for the Department of Radiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, has been named chair of Vanderbilt's Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. He will assume the role in the fall. Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12740http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12740<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12740"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/Ray+and+Stein+SU002.jpg&width=100&height=65&hash=a129d95aef24139bbabc3b3ca740077e" align="left" height="65" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a rare, but important risk posed by the antibiotic azithromycin, commonly called a "Z-pack." </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12740"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/Ray+and+Stein+SU002.jpg&width=100&height=65&hash=a129d95aef24139bbabc3b3ca740077e" align="left" height="65" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12738http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12738<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12738"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/Clin+neuro+group_5427.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=dda84dfc08b36e9b22fd5538db59d0cd" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>Vanderbilt University has established a unique program to expose neuroscience graduate students to the clinic, and clinical residents and fellows in Psychiatry, Neurosurgery and Neurology to the research lab. </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12738"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/Clin+neuro+group_5427.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=dda84dfc08b36e9b22fd5538db59d0cd" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12739http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12739Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been awarded a three-year, $2.4 million Health Care Innovation Award from the U.S. Health and Human Services Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to develop new strategies to reduce hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries.Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12737http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12737<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12737"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511JH0002.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=5a01777f6cc1776457ed3b4b46c6a831" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>During Commencement, Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members who are retiring this year were bestowed with the title of emeritus faculty, honoring their years of service to the University. </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12737"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/20120511JH0002.JPG&width=100&height=66&hash=5a01777f6cc1776457ed3b4b46c6a831" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12742http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12742Sleep difficulties affect as many as three-fourths of all children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), but very little research has been conducted to help older children and their families sleep better through the night. Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12743http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12743The Greater Nashville Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has awarded a $60,000 grant to the Vanderbilt Center for Community Health Solutions' Coalition for Healthy Aging Breast Health Advocate program to expand and enhance breast health detection and education in Middle Tennessee. Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12744http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12744<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12744"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/SA+Steeplechase_1757.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=2e67fd7ab0a7e31c986413355063bc69" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a></p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=12744"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/5_18_12/SA+Steeplechase_1757.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=2e67fd7ab0a7e31c986413355063bc69" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:35 -0500