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Data sharing in response to emergent health crises: an interview with Dr. James Crowe
Jun. 1, 2016—Data sharing in response to emergent health crises: an interview with Dr. James Crowe Whether describing an emergent disease, developing a vaccine, or selecting a targeted therapy, intra- and interinstitutional collaboration is vital to expeditiously tackling urgent biomedical questions. However, many characteristics of academic science restrict scientists’ ability to work cohesively. First, distributing...
Women In Training Society
Jun. 1, 2016—Women In Training Society Women comprise 40% of MD/PhD program graduates but only 20% of MD/PhD full professors/ NIH research program grant investigators.1 To halt this loss of talent and labor from the physician scientist workforce, we must prepare and support women for medical research careers from the very onset of the career...
Podcast: Get to Know a Vanderbilt MSTP Student
May. 9, 2016—Listen to G2 MSTP student Ben Fensterheim interview recent MSTP graduates Megan and Tanner Freeman about their research in virology and colorectal cancer, their experience matching into the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital system, and their advice for current and prospective MSTP students.
Alumni Profile: Nichelle Winters, M.D., Ph.D. (’15)
May. 9, 2016—by Abin Abraham (M1) Dr. Winters is a recent graduate (2015) of the Vanderbilt MSTP program. She is in her first year of Internal Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Winters hails from Vale, Oregon and came to Vanderbilt with an interest in developmental biology. Under the mentorship of Dr. David Bader during graduate school,...
Alumni Profile: Joshua Fessel, M.D., Ph.D. (’06)
May. 5, 2016—by Abin Abraham (M1) Dr. Joshua Fessel graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2006 as the Founder’s Medal winner for the School of Medicine. He is currently an Assistant Professor within theDivision of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University with appointments in Medicine, Pharmacology, and Cancer Biology. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Fessel...
Podcast: Get to Know a Vanderbilt MSTP Student
Apr. 28, 2016—Listen to G2 MSTP student Ben Fensterheim interview G3 MSTP student Nathaniel Bloodworth about his undergraduate research at Emory and Georgia Tech, how he became interested in bridging the fields of science and medicine, his current thesis in applying engineering principles to understanding pulmonary fibrosis, and his career goals in tissue engineering. ...
A Few Parting Thoughts about Victory for Physician-Scientists
Apr. 28, 2016—I have been doing a lot of thinking about physician-scientist careers with the transition to my new responsibilities as Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. This thinking has been stimulated in part by lots of conversations with students and colleagues about what constitutes an optimum career (or optimum outcome for training grant applications)...
Christopher Williams (Vanderbilt MSTP ’02) named new Director of the Vanderbilt MSTP
Apr. 20, 2016—After an extensive selection process, Dr. Christopher Williams has been selected to serve as Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program and as Associate Dean for Physician-Scientist Education and Training at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The MSTP has a long history of outstanding and inspirational leadership, and Dr. Williams will no doubt continue this...
Vanderbilt MSTP well represented at the APSA/ASCI meeting
Apr. 20, 2016—The Joint Meeting of the Association of American Physicians (AAP), American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) hosted in Chicago, IL from April 15-17, 2016 represented a broad range of cutting-edge research in medicine. This Joint Meeting featured lectures by accomplished researchers and leaders within their respective fields, such as...
MSTP Associate Director and Student Work Together to Better Help Patient
Jan. 26, 2016—The VUMC Reporter recently shared the article linked to below which features three MD-PhDs working together to find the best treatment plan for a patient. The group working together to bring this bedside matter to the bench and then back to the bedside included MSTP Associate Director, Sally York; MSTP student, J-N Gallant; and J-N’s...