Matt Batcheldor

Nashville

Writer and Public Relations Specialist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center at VUMC Reporter

Writer, human being. In Nashville, by way of the Great Northwest and Louisville. Proud @WKU alum. Opinions/RTs my own.

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Vanderbilt Liver Transplant Service renamed in honor of C. Wright Pinson

1 week ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

The Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Service at the Vanderbilt Transplant Center is being renamed the Pinson Service in honor of C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, upon his retirement as Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer on June 30.
Transplant patient’s long journey brings her from the Aloha State to the Volunteer State

1 week ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Michelle Ankele-Yamashita said she rarely got sick, much less caught the flu. But it was a simple case of influenza, then pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that took her from health to end-stage lung failure in October 2024, resulting in a 4,000-mile transport from Hawaii to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center for a lifesaving lung transplant in February.
Joseph Magliocca elected to transplantation network board

1 week ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Joseph Magliocca, MD, director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center, has been elected to the 2025 board of directors for the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). Magliocca, professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and surgical director of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program, is among a new, 34-member board that will officially begin their terms on July 1.
Nursing Grand Rounds features executive director of nursing charter school

3 weeks ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Nashville will have a new public charter school in the fall with a mission to prepare high school students for careers in nursing and allied health. The school’s executive director was the keynote speaker at the recent spring Nursing Grand Rounds at VUMC.
David Shaffer leaves lasting legacy on Vanderbilt’s Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program

3 weeks ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

David Shaffer, MD, professor of Surgery and surgical director of the Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program, will retire June 30. Shaffer came to the Vanderbilt Transplant Center in 2001 as chief of the Division of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation, a role in which he served until 2020, when he was succeeded by his mentee, Rachel Forbes, MD, MBA, associate professor of Surgery.
Veterans with depression have increased risk of heart failure: study

1 month ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

U.S. veterans with depression had a 14% higher risk of heart failure, a new Vanderbilt University Medical Center-led study found, even after adjusting for traditional risk factors. The study, “Depression and Heart Failure in U.S. Veterans,” was published May 8 in the journal JAMA Network Open. Corresponding author Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, professor of Medicine, said the study suggests implications for patient care.
Donate Life Ceremony celebrates organ donors and their families

1 month ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Seventy-one individuals donated their organs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2024, and they and their families were saluted on April 30 at the annual Donate Life Ceremony. “Those 71 donors resulted in 235 lives that were saved,” said C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Health System Officer for VUMC.
Barton Huddleston appointed to State Rehabilitation Council

1 month ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Barton Huddleston, MD, assistant professor of Clinical, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, was recently appointed to the State Rehabilitation Council (SRC) for a three-year term by Gov. Bill Lee. The mission of the SRC is to advise, evaluate and partner with the public vocational rehabilitation program in support of improving access to employment statewide.
Team from the Philippines visits to observe heart and lung transplant programs

1 month ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

An international team of cardiac surgeons, physicians, anesthesiologists, donor coordinators and nurses from the Philippine Heart Center in Quezon City, the Philippines, recently visited the Vanderbilt Transplant Center to observe its heart and lung transplant programs. The delegation is planning to establish a new heart transplant program in the Philippines, serving a population of 115 million people, said Avenilo L. Aventura Jr., MD, executive director of the Philippine Heart Center.
New consortium of health systems dedicated to improving cardiac surgery outcomes throughout Tennessee

2 months ago | news.vumc.org | Matt Batcheldor

Vanderbilt University Medical Center initiated and is leading the Tennessee Cardiac Surgery Consortium (TCSC), a new state-based collaborative that met for the first time in person on April 15. The consortium is dedicated to improving cardiac surgery outcomes throughout Tennessee.