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2025 Almost Alumni Luncheon Honors VUSM Educators
May. 21, 2025—Each spring, Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Affairs alongside Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members for their contributions to student medical education, as voted upon by graduating M4s VUSM faculty, staff, and students celebrated the following recipients at the Almost Alumni Luncheon on Wednesday, May 7, 2025: Bonnie M. Miller, M.D., M.M.H.C Award The...
VUSM Recognizes M4 Achievements at 2025 Class Day
May. 20, 2025—VUSM’s annual Class Day recognizes members of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards on Thursday, May 8, 2024: The Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine This award recognizes graduating students who have demonstrated high academic achievement, superior...
Med School Sweethearts Come Full Circle, Tie the Knot at VUSM
Mar. 4, 2025—Eskind Biomedical Library is a building that wears many hats. Beyond just a library, it’s a classroom, a gathering space, a historical archive, and a place where administrative magic happens. But EBL became something else entirely when engaged M4s Simone and Thomas Ueland asked Senior Associate Dean for Medical Student and Alumni Affairs Amy Fleming...
From Undergrad to Match: M4s Michael and Yanelis Greenberg’s Journey in Love and Learning
Feb. 14, 2025—By Kyra Letsinger There is an old saying about young love that many pass off as nothing but a myth: “When you know you know.” Vanderbilt University School of Medicine M4 Yanelis Diaz Greenberg, on the other hand, is a firm believer – she experienced it firsthand in 2018 when she was only an undergrad...
From Physicist to Physician: Meet M1 Halina Tran
Jan. 24, 2025—By Kyra Letsinger Following your dreams is a phrase so often repeated it can lose its impact. It seems simple: you listen to your heart and pursue the path to get there. In reality, achieving one’s dreams is not for the faint of heart. It is for those who are strong in their convictions, confident...
VUSM Honors M4 Awardees on 2024 Class Day
May. 14, 2024—VUSM’s annual Class Day recognizes members of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards on Thursday, May 9, 2024: The Albert Weinstein Prize in Medicine This award recognizes graduating students who have demonstrated high academic achievement, superior...
Faculty Receive Student-Selected Awards During 2024 Almost Alumni Luncheon
May. 9, 2024—Each spring, Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Affairs alongside Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members for their contributions to student medical education, as voted upon by graduating M4s VUSM faculty, staff, and students celebrated the following recipients at the Almost Alumni Luncheon on Wednesday, May 9, 2024: Bonnie M. Miller, M.D., M.M.H.C Award The...
Trusting the Process: MSTP Thao Do Vy Le Matches into Psychiatry
May. 1, 2024—As she approaches graduation, M4 Thao Le, Ph.D. reflects on finding her way and unlocking her passions at VUSM By Kyra Letsinger M4 MSTP student Thao Do Vy Le, Ph.D., was always ready to take risks. From a young age, when it came to new opportunities, she was not afraid to take a leap of...
2024 Student Flexner Lectures Examine Values of Service, Navigating the Insurance Industry
Apr. 1, 2024—M3 Gunther Wong and M4 Alison Swartz offer their peers valuable insights from their past career experiences By Kyra Letsinger In the early 2000s, former Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs Bonnie Miller, MD, organized an unscheduled Deans’ Hour, a space in the curriculum created to provide a formal lecture opportunity for students and faculty...
M4 Students Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal are a Match Made in Med School Heaven
Feb. 12, 2024—Fourth-year couple Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal look to tackle residency together after spending their VUSM journeys side by side. By: Kyra Letsinger When Nina Curkovic and Sachin Aggarwal entered their first day of M1 Orientation in July of 2020, they were naturally nervous. A perfect storm of a new place, new people, and both...