- Learn to “Reset” a Stagnant Collaboration into a Life-Giving One
Author Dan Heath, often alongside his brother Chip, writes engaging, bestselling business books. His latest effort describes how to “reset” business practices that continue mainly because of historical inertia instead of thoughtful design. Reset: How to Change What’s Not Working ...
- Industry Contracts: What PIs Need to Know
You might have noticed that industry funding has become a much more desirable part of a PI's funding portfolio in 2025 than it has been in the past. VUMC's Office of Sponsored Programs - Contracts Management department is here to help.
While each industry contract is unique, i...
- Making the Rounds In Palliative Care, One Collaboration at a Time
Making the Rounds in Palliative Care, One Collaboration at a Time
Before it became the norm for trauma units and palliative care physicians to work together, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), Dr. Mohana Karlekar and her colleague, Dr. John Morris, t...
- Available Support with updated NIH Public Access Compliance Policy
To achieve compliance under the updated NIH Public Access policy, the Author Accepted Manuscript or the Final Published Article must be submitted to PMC for public availability without embargo upon the official date of publication.
The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries have n...
- Vanderbilt Medicine was Built to Unite Clinics and Labs and to Inspire a Country
It often helps to look at history to understand the present. Vanderbilt Medical Center has a storied history, and fortunately, a few books preserve that story for the present. Timothy Jacobson’s Making Medical Doctors: Science and Medicine at Vanderbilt Since Flexner tells the st...
- Predicting Whether a Collaboration Will Work
We know collaborating on common goals with outside groups is a good thing, but how can you know going in that a collaboration will be successful? Despite all the best intentions, cultural and historical factors don’t always align to support a good collaboration. It’d be nice to k...
- Faster, Better Chart Abstraction with Brim
Manual chart abstraction of unstructured data has created big bottlenecks in medical research - data doesn't help researchers if it's trapped in electronic notes. New software from Vanderbilt, Brim, makes chart abstraction up to 80% faster and often more accurate as well by l...
- Non-NIH Funding: Industry and Foundations
Some tips from PIs who've walked the path of industry and foundation funding, as well as a member of a university medical center development office.
Industry
If you want to get whatever awesome thing you've discovered into the clinic, especially if it's a drug, you'll event...
- You’d better like where you’re going…
You’d better like where you’re going because you’ll be there for a long time.
In my roles as attending physician, scientist, mentor, and director of an institutional career development office, I spend a lot of time talking to students, trainees, and early career scientist...
- Getting an Edge through Mentorship
Traditional mentorship programs tend to be organized via a hierarchy, with mentees being assigned a mentor to advance mentees’ careers. Under imprecise rubrics like “peer mentoring” or “lateral mentoring,” recent attention has focused on how key mentorships happen outside of inst...
