Five Pillar Leader Award
Lori Rolando sets an example of working hard but protecting work-life balance
By Jill Clendening
For her work, the Occupational Health Clinic Director was recognized with a Five Pillar Leader Award.
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Employee Spotlight
Lori Anne Parker-Danley used pandemic time to learn quilting and create her “pandemic quilt”
By Jill Clendening
Improv quilting stitched together her hours during the pandemic
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Patient and Family Choice Award
Thomas Akins recognized for his compassionate spirit in the Emergency Department
By Jill Clendening
Thomas Akins was named winner of the Patient and Family Choice Award.
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Employee Spotlight
Sister surgeons share a winding road that led to VUMC
By Jill Clendening
From Canada to Florida to VUMC, the "Gillaspie Girls" are building careers after "falling in love with surgery."
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Patient Spotlight
Multiple sclerosis, lung cancer, and 50 marathons: Aaron Hawkins about to reach amazing milestone
By Jill Clendening
"He has been a blessing and role model for so many," his doctor Jonathan Nesbitt says.
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Elevate Team Award
Uncharted days of the COVID-19 pandemic strengthen the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program team.
By Jill Clendening
“There’s something about having a band of brothers, where you’re all focused on the same thing, and your noses are all pointed in the same direction."
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Five Pillar Leader Award
Chad Fitzgerald experienced the pandemic from unique vantage point
By Jill Clendening
"His steady voice and hand has modulated the emotional ups and downs each of us has experienced."
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Patient Spotlight
Meredith Watson is pursuing a career as a “professional nose.” Surgery at VUMC sharpened her sense of smell.
By Jill Clendening
"I literally could feel air in parts of my nose where I’d never felt it before.”
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VUMC in the Community
VUMC employees partner with community agency to provide Thanksgiving meals
By Jill Clendening
The boxes were packed full of ingredients for side dishes, and recipients were also given a plump turkey ready for roasting
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