Alumni
VUSM recognizes 2023 award winners
May. 11, 2023—Each spring, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes members of the graduating MD class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards at the MD Class Day ceremony on Thursday, May 11, 2023: The Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine This...
Q&A with M3 Georgina Sellyn
Apr. 30, 2023—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 Vanderbilt University tennis player, Sellyn plans to...
Sylvie Muhimpundu (MPH ’19, MD ’26) applies a degree of experience
Oct. 4, 2022—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 in her mind as she...
Moving ever forward: M1 Russell Stewart envisions medical future
Oct. 3, 2022—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 Elm Street in Nashville, now a forgotten lot adjacent...
VUSM recognizes annual award winners
May. 18, 2022—Each spring, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes members of the graduating MD class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards at the MD Class Day ceremony on Thursday, May 12, 2022: The Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine This...
A life leading back home: Reflections from Dr. Henry Nelson (MD ’45)
May. 12, 2022—Vanderbilt University School of Medicine alumnus, Dr. Henry Nelson, turned 99 on Jan. 16, 2022. Nelson died shortly after this interview sharing his reflections on a life in medicine. This story is dedicated to his memory. By: Lexie Little The year was 1949. Kathryn Wolff Nelson sat next to the crib holding her newborn baby...
Thank you, Dr. President: M4 Leland Dunwoodie
Apr. 27, 2022—After four years serving as the Council of Class Officers president for the MD Class of 2022, Leland Dunwoodie reflects on his VUSM community By: Lexie Little For graduating students, the weeks leading to commencement mark a time of great excitement and anticipation of the future. And while that common experience remains true for M4...
Shade Tree Clinic celebrates 10th annual benefit
Feb. 24, 2022—Nine-time Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow and Grammy nominee Rivers Rutherford headlined “Late Night with Shade Tree Clinic” on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 By: Lexie Little Everyday is a winding road, one might say, for the underserved populations of the Nashville area. And since 2004, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine students have played an integral role...
VUMC resident Pauleatha Bonds (‘21) shares lessons from the Health Equity Certificate
Aug. 16, 2021—by Emma Mattson “I’d been interested in health disparities for a long time, probably even before I knew what the phrase ‘health disparities’ was,” remembers Pauleatha Bonds, MD (VUSM ‘21), a member of the first graduating class in VUSM’s Health Equity Certificate and current dermatology resident at VUMC. Created by Senior Associate Dean for Health...
A Centennial Tribute: VUSM Grad Gordon Petty, MD (‘50) turns 100
Sep. 19, 2020—by Emma Mattson Gordon Petty, born September 19, 1920, celebrates his hundredth birthday this Saturday, September 19. His century of life is marked by medical excellence, exemplary service to his community, and unforgettable influence on all who meet him. Dr. Petty has lived through the Great Depression, a world war, the terms of 17 American...