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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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Articles

  • Veterans with depression have increased risk of heart failure: study

    1 week 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 week 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

    2 weeks 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

    2 weeks 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

    3 weeks 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.

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