VUSM Student Stories

Genetic counseling student Dave Baker completed cancer genetics rotations in each of Tennessee’s Grand Divisions By: Lexie Little Dave Baker looked out at the road ahead. Nearly three hours of his five-hour drive between Kalispell and Bozeman, Montana, had passed since leaving the clinic where he shadowed genetic counselor… Read More

M3 Georgina Sellyn advocates for skin protection in athletics, planning community tennis tournaments at various medical schools across the country By: Lexie Little May is National Tennis Month and Melanoma and Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Third-year medical student Georgina Sellyn intends to honor both with determination. A former… Read More

Third-year Medical Innovators Development Program (MIDP) students Emma Neal, PhD, Sarah Ouadah, PhD, and Noah Thompson Orfield, PhD, used patient-centered insights to develop a new health care app for improving team care and communication By: Lexie Little In a hospital setting, patients encounter many faces and care teams: from… Read More

A clinical patient encounter led two Medical Innovators Development Program students to develop a potentially life-saving technology through an industry immersion experience with GE HealthCare Photo: Anne Rayner By: Lexie Little The heart monitor beep kept time with an IV pump like the ticking of a clock. More beeps sounded,… Read More

Fourth-year couple George and Sara Lin reflect on their time at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as they look forward to residency and their life ahead By: Lexie Little In January 2016, George Lin sat at a table near the entrance of an academic building. He checked the time, which… Read More

M3 Andrea Lopez and her family founded Grains of Love, a mission organization committed to providing basic care supplies to communities in and around Honduras By: Lexie Little M3 Andrea Lopez and her family When M3 Andrea Lopez went home for the holidays in 2021, she truly went home. Boarding… Read More

Rwanda native Sylvie Muhimpundu wanted to be a physician well before she ever came to the United States. Now, she’s working on her second degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. By: Lexie Little Shuffling past bustling cars along 21st Avenue in Nashville, Sylvie Muhimpundu reviewed they day’s tasks ahead… Read More

Though his family has a long history at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Russell O. Stewart Jr. keeps his focus on the future in an ever-changing field By: Lexie Little In 1920, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine sat at the intersection of present-day Fifth Avenue and… Read More

M1 Darryl Delsoin joins the Medical Innovator Development Program (MIDP) with an entrepreneurial mission By: Lexie Little M1 Darryl Delsoin Darryl Delsoin peered through the white smoke cloud. He watched as local Haitian women and men cooked over ash-riddled round stoves fueled by charcoal. Nearby wooden doorways, some stained with… Read More

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine M3 Thomas Ueland connects with patients, peers, and people in need By: Lexie Little Thomas Ueland Approximately 157.5 miles from third-year medical student Thomas Ueland’s hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, sits the merged mining towns of Fleming-Neon. Rains ravaged Neon in early August, flooding businesses, homes,… Read More