http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporterVanderbilt Medical Center's Weekly Newspaper - Current Issue - Nov. 6, 2009http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/sites/reporter/images/reporterlogo-medium.gifhttp://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter14422http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7757http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7757<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7757"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/MyVUMC+logo2+banner.jpg&width=100&height=35&hash=a4726b8bb5a88c3e70c537c981db71e0" align="left" height="35" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>You are about to get far fewer official e-mails.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7757"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/MyVUMC+logo2+banner.jpg&width=100&height=35&hash=a4726b8bb5a88c3e70c537c981db71e0" align="left" height="35" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7758http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7758<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7758"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/CCT+ribbon001.jpg&width=100&height=74&hash=f9d9f35976d46a8ce6c7a855f4632f3a" align="left" height="74" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a></p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7758"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/CCT+ribbon001.jpg&width=100&height=74&hash=f9d9f35976d46a8ce6c7a855f4632f3a" align="left" height="74" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7761http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7761<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7761"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Uncomp+v2.jpg&width=100&height=75&hash=201939d3105c6d98974d61c1f389d424" align="left" height="75" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>Vanderbilt University Medical Center continues to lead the way in providing uncompensated care in Middle Tennessee, according to figures recently released by the Tennessee Department of Health in its most recent Joint Annual Report of Hospitals (JAR).</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7761"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Uncomp+v2.jpg&width=100&height=75&hash=201939d3105c6d98974d61c1f389d424" align="left" height="75" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7760http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7760Vanderbilt University scientists have received 182 federal "stimulus" grants totaling more than $79 million to support new and existing research projects, buy major equipment and hire additional personnel.Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7759http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7759<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7759"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/VUceptor+199.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=e82e7d58d500b40fb5a8e016e7a38f0f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>Before "one Vanderbilt" became a common phrase on campus, the University's Commons campus area was using the concept to maximize resources available to new students through Vanderbilt Visions and Faculty Associates to the Houses.</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7759"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/VUceptor+199.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=e82e7d58d500b40fb5a8e016e7a38f0f" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7743http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7743<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7743"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Carbone+portrait.jpg&width=92&height=100&hash=d4456f261accd79d7661a1fa2aaaa1bf" align="left" height="100" width="92" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology and Cancer Biology, has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal stimulus funds to study polymorphisms or genetic variations among minorities with non-small cell lung cancer. </p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7743"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Carbone+portrait.jpg&width=92&height=100&hash=d4456f261accd79d7661a1fa2aaaa1bf" align="left" height="100" width="92" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7740http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7740Vanderbilt cardiologist Ken Monahan, M.D., is the lead author of a study to help determine if sleep apnea, and the breathing disturbances associated with it, can trigger certain types of arrhythmia. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7753http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7753<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7753"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Peds+OHO+011.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=8f7b7807d97aa96a1ee4666b82caddc1" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a>On Nov. 9, the Pediatric Allergy Clinic and the Adolescent Medicine Clinic will begin seeing patients in their new offices at Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks (OHO).</p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7753"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Peds+OHO+011.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=8f7b7807d97aa96a1ee4666b82caddc1" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7739http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7739We welcome suggestions for research to highlight in Aliquots. The items should be primary research articles (no reviews, editorials or commentaries) published within the last two months in a peer-reviewed journal. Please send the article citation (PDF if available) and any other feedback about the column to: aliquots@vanderbilt.edu. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7744http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7744Many breast cancer patients clear the first hurdles of chemotherapy and surgery only to face another little-known hurdle - lymphedema. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7746http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7746Vanderbilt University School of Nursing's Nurse-Midwifery practice is among the best large practice group in the country, according to the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM).Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7749http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7749"Serotonin: A Day in the Life" will be the theme of the 2009 symposium of the Silvio O. Conte Neuroscience Research Center at Vanderbilt University.Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7741http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7741Joan Steitz, Ph.D., whose work has helped reveal the role of RNA-protein complexes in gene expression, will deliver the next Discovery Lecture on Nov. 12. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7754http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7754Kyla Terhune, M.D., a General Surgery resident at Vanderbilt, says she once taught high school biology and chemistry just so she could coach basketball. Now, it seems her surgical residency is getting her back into teaching and coaching.Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7747http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7747Jerod Denton, PhD., assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, and his colleagues are working to develop "potassium-sparing" diuretics that could replace conventional loop diuretics. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7751http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7751Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7750http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7750Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7773http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7773<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7773"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-Daibetes+family+day005.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=03576a98355158ab42ca87a7a07cc542" 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=7773"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-Daibetes+family+day005.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=03576a98355158ab42ca87a7a07cc542" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7748http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7748<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7748"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Women+track+031a.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=510b0715425ab674a1e83935b33ec330" 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=7748"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/Women+track+031a.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=510b0715425ab674a1e83935b33ec330" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7756http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7756The Nashville Predators have been a force for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital lately. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7752http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7752<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7752"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-JACHO+001.jpg&width=100&height=71&hash=62b5a62927460274944d6932ba03fa6f" align="left" height="71" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a></p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7752"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-JACHO+001.jpg&width=100&height=71&hash=62b5a62927460274944d6932ba03fa6f" align="left" height="71" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7755http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7755<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7755"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-Ethics+GrndRnd018.jpg&width=100&height=70&hash=93e17043211fb513349226e6886f1b71" align="left" height="70" width="100" alt="Reporter Photo" border="0" /></a></p><br clear="all"/><p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7755"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-Ethics+GrndRnd018.jpg&width=100&height=70&hash=93e17043211fb513349226e6886f1b71" align="left" height="70" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7742http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7742<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7742"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-DiscLec+Wang+018.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=7f10030b0b6405f257bf0ad0b5793536" 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=7742"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-DiscLec+Wang+018.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=7f10030b0b6405f257bf0ad0b5793536" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7745http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7745<p><a href="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=7745"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-fall+reflect006a.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=04277e579b9c27c67837105f3fe1d189" 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=7745"><img src="http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/common/imageresizer/image.php?image=/documents/reporter/newimages/11_6_09/SA-fall+reflect006a.jpg&width=100&height=66&hash=04277e579b9c27c67837105f3fe1d189" align="left" height="66" width="100" alt="photo" title="" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600