Matthew Bilodeau has always wanted to be a physician. He’s not sure he understood the role a physician played when he was five years old, but something about it completely intrigued him. “I didn’t really have any role models in...

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  • Vanderbilt faculty members, Dr. Earl Sutherland (cyclic AMP) and Dr. Stanley Cohen (epidermal growth factor) have won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

  • Dr. Eric Neilson is the current chair and the institution's 7th since the reorganization of the medical school in 1925.

  • Did you know our medical campus includes a 700-bed University Hospital, the adjacent 350-bed Veterans Affairs Hospital, and the Vanderbilt Clinic?

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the only Magnet Hospital in Metro Nashville area.

  • The Vanderbilt Clinic sees over 1,000,000 outpatient visits per year.

  • Vanderbilt University Hospital has one of the most advanced electronic systems in the nation for both order entry and for its EMR.

  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is one of the nation's top medical schools.

  • Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ranked 10th among all medical schools in total NIH awards.

  • Vanderbilt Department of Medicine ranks 1st among the DOM in all medical schools in NIH award growth rate between 1998 & 2009, from $23M to $134M.

  • Vanderbilt Department of Medicine ranked 5th among Departments of Medicine in total NIH awards.

  • The clinical faculty in FY 2009 admitted over 15,600 patients to the Vanderbilt University Hospital or the on-campus Nashville VA Hospital.

  • In 1925, under the leadership of Canby Robinson, a new hospital was built on the main campus and the modern School of Medicine was born.
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