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Celebrate health and wellness this holiday season with Health Plus Hold the Stuffing! Choose from 3 options (or choose all) depending on your health and wellness goals.
With any option you could win PRIZES!
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Need an idea for Thanksgiving this year? Follow these step by step recipes featuring Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip, Pesto Chicken Salad, Brown Sugar Chicken and Sweet Potatoes, and so much more.
Check out these healthy but flavorful recipes by the Vanderbilt Faculty and Staff Wellness page!
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Open Positions in Neurology:
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Don't forget about VUMC's employment referral program! If you know someone who would be a great addition to VUMC, refer them for one of the qualified full-time positions, and you could earn from $2,000 up to $15,000 per qualified referral.
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We welcome you to write a farewell note to Dr. Zimmerman on Kudoboard, our online group card filled with messages, GIFs, and photos.
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The Neurology Wellnesss Committee Presents...
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Honeysuckle Hills FarmOver sixty people joined the event at Honeysuckle Hills Farm where some stopped to take a group photo and have a moment to enjoy some donuts that morning.
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The Wellness Committee invites all faculty, fellows, residents, and staff to come socialize, meet new colleagues, and relax. Food and drinks will be covered by the department, as a gift from a generous donor.
Next event is on the 3rd Friday of the month, November 17, 2023
When: 5-7pm
Where: Pizza Perfect on 21st Ave. S (across from the hospital)
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Food Bank DonationsClick the image below to donate to the department’s Virtual Second Harvest Food Bank fundraiser!
We are seeing how much we can raise from now until December 1st!
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Upcoming Volunteer OpportunityJoin the Wellness Committee for a group Volunteering Event at Second Harvest for a Family-Friendly (kids 6 years old and older are welcome) Thursday evening in December- The virtual food drive will culminate in a day of service in December before the holidays. More information to come!
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Don't Forget...- FY2024 Goals Due in Workday 11/10/2023.
Faculty supervisors and staff are encouraged to enter goals in Workday.
** Please note: Managers can enter goals on behalf of their employees, but AAs will not have access to enter the goals. They will only be able to guide you through the process. Faculty are not required to enter their own goals in Workday.
- Flu shot.
The final deadline to become compliant is December 1st, 2023.
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- Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Office of Inclusion and Health Equity (OIHE) promotes inclusion and equity for everyone receiving care from VUMC and its related clinics and hospitals. Tune into Neurology grand rounds for the upcoming DEI/Health Equity GR lecture series with speakers Dr. Wally Clair, on 11/17 and Dr. Consuelo Wilkins, on 12/8. We will see you there!
- In case you missed it, VUMC launched a new “Cause for Applause” portal. This portal is a way for you to publicly and privately acknowledge colleagues who are doing outstanding work and upholding the VUMC CREDO. Let's celebrate together!
- Please remember, if international travel is NOT booked through Concur, it will unfortunately be denied for reimbursement through WorkDay. When you submit an international travel reimbursement, please upload proof that your travel was booked through Concur and upload an approved ITQ to your Workday travel reimbursement submission. Find more information about this here.
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Neurology Departmental Intranet Did you know the neurology department has our very own intranet web page?
Here, you can find all past editions of the neurology newsletter as well as an abundance of resources for Academic Affairs, Administrative Operations, Clinical Operations, Quality and Patient Safety Committee, Education, Finance & Operational Reports, Grants & Research, and Human Resources. Check it out today!
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Join the department on TWITTER - @VUMCneurology
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- The Cognitive Division had a paper accepted in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law:
McDonell KE, Brown BK, Hale L, Darby RR, Stovall J, Compas BE, Claassen DO. Medicolegal Aspects of Huntington Disease. J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2021 Dec;49(4):565-571. doi: 10.29158/JAAPL.210008-21. Epub 2021 Aug 2. PMID: 34341147.
- Dr. David Charles and Mallory Hacker had a publication in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association:
Tomaras, MC., Simmons, S.F., Schnelle, J.F., Charles, D., Hacker, M.L. The Minimum Data Set: An Opportunity to Improve Spasticity Screening. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. 2021. 22(3):608-612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2020.07.009.
- Dr. Art Walters and Dr. Kanika Bagai are co-authors on the following published manuscript in the Journal of the American Heart Association:
Gao X, Ba DM, Bagai K, Liu G, Ma C, Walters AS. Treating Restless Legs Syndrome was associated with low risk of cardiovascular disease: A cohort study with 3.4 years of follow up. Journal of the American Heart Association 2021; 10: e018674.DOI: 10.1161/JAHA. 120.018674.
- Dr. Jonah Fox had his poster selected to be presented during the critical care EEG poster tour at the ACNS conference this year. Title: Analysis of EEG patterns and clinical findings in cardiac arrest patients; their response to treatment and usefulness for prognostication.
- Dr. Jonah Fox had a recent publication in Epilepsia, the "Official Journal of the International League Against Epilepsy":
Fox, Jonah., Barnard, S., Agashe, S.H., Holmes, M.G., Gidal, B., Klein, P., Abou-Khalil, B.W., French, J. and (2023), Patterns of Anti-Seizure Medication Utilization in the Human Epilepsy Project (HEP). Epilepsia. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/epi.17802
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Grant Opportunities
Are you planning to submit a grant soon? If so, please complete the Department of Neurology Grant Application Tool at least 30 days in advance of your submission.
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Discounts:
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