Five Pillar Leader Award
Heather Jackson aims to improve lives, no matter where she serves
By Jill Clendening
She was honored with the Five Pillar Leader Award at the latest virtual Leadership Assembly
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Credo Award Winner
In his first six months at Vanderbilt’s Dayani Center, Eric Jarvis maneuvered a car crash, a tornado and a pandemic.
By Doug Campbell
Through it all, his leadership has been a steadying influence for his 60-member team
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Credo Award Winner
Sharlinda Robertson has a way with toddlers having tantrums. And everybody else, too.
By Matt Batcheldor
Her small acts of kindness earned her a Credo Award
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Credo Award Winner
Johnny Wedderburn’s positivity, kindness and innovation help patients become independent again
By Nancy Humphrey
"He cares for the entire person and doesn’t just perform a job."
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Elevate Team Award
Elevate Team Award celebrates COVIDRX team’s coordinated, statewide distribution of COVID-19 therapeutic
By Bill Snyder
"The team focused on the patients. We took a Vanderbilt Credo and extended it and portrayed it for the entire state of Tennessee.”
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Credo Award Winner
With a smile and a paint brush, Tim Temple works to bring quality care to patients at VPH
By Doug Campbell
“He problem solves solutions unique to the behavioral health environment and models empathy and compassion for our patients and for his colleagues.”
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Credo Award Winner
After a tornado tore through Thomas Akins’s home in an overnight storm, he was only worried about one thing: getting to work to serve patients and families.
By Paul Govern
“He is truly the most positive person and a real example of the Credo.”
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Elevate Team Award
The Molecular Infectious Disease Lab team earns spotlight for work on COVID-19 diagnostic testing
By Bill Snyder
The first suspected case of COVID-19 was detected in Tennessee March 5. Within four days, the lab team identified a testing platform, obtained reagents and developed and validated the test.
By the end of the first 10 days, more than 3,300 tests had been completed.
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Five Pillar Leader Award
Kristy Sinkfield brings divergent viewpoints together to accomplish changes large and small at VUMC
By Leigh MacMillan
Strategy leader was the ‘secret sauce’ for success in EpicLeap Operational Readiness
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