Vanderbilt University Medical Center is an academic health system based in Nashville, Tennessee, combining patient care, biomedical research and the training of health professionals. Its technical work spans clinical care and personalized medicine, biomedical research, and medical education. The organisation is one of the largest academic medical systems in the Southeast and operates as a major referral centre, seeing patients from across the region and beyond.
Its activities fall into three areas. Patient care is delivered across a main campus, community hospitals and clinics, with an emphasis on personalised treatment. Research programmes carry a reputation for excellence, and training programmes educate physicians, nurses, researchers and support staff. The stated approach to care is one that treats patients as though they were part of the family.
Staff work in interdisciplinary teams of physicians, nurses, researchers and support staff. The medical centre describes itself as a growing academic health system dedicated to quality care and to advancing personalised health, with its mission resting on the three pillars of care, research and training.
