The collaboration will leverage VUMC’s resource platform, including its comprehensive datasets hosted in Vanderbilt’s BioVU collection of DNA and plasma to enable data-driven insights and to accelerate discovery and development.
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center (VTC) performed 960 solid organ transplants in 2025, the most ever completed by a single center in one year in the United States.
Vanderbilt Health has received accreditation from the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Adult Congenital Transthoracic Echocardiography, joining a select group of organizations.
Eight Department of Medicine faculty are among the 27 new members elected to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Academy for Excellence in Clinical Medicine.
Among the patients transplanted this year were 16 children and more than 185 adults, 29 U.S. veterans, and 20 patients who received multiorgan transplants including 16 heart-kidney transplants, two heart-liver transplants and two heart-lung transplants.
This year, several Department of Medicine faculty were appointed to new positions that will help advance the department and medical center missions.
It was recently announced that Department of Medicine Cardiology Drs. Jamie Pfaff and Kathryn Sunthankar will receive the 2026 David C. Leach Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) at the February 2026 Annual ACGME Educational Conference.
“Dr. DeFilippis is a visionary leader with a proven track record of excellence across research, clinical care and education," said Bryan Harris, MD, MPH, MMHC, interim chair of the Department of Medicine.
A VUMC team led by Kashish Goel, MD, associate professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), is pioneering the use of minimally invasive transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement to resolve severe tricuspid regurgitation, a rare and serious posttransplant complication.
VUMC recently held a Directorship Celebration to honor 23 leaders, including seven in the Department of Medicine, from across the enterprise in clinical care, research, education and administration.
