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MSTPastime: A Love Letter to DollyWood
Nov. 22, 2019—By Elizabeth Moore (G2) I will always love you After working 9 to 5 all day long There is only one place I want to go Plenty of funnel cakes and country song Roller coasters and Christmas lights aglow Up in the mountains a beautiful scene People watching and rides to make you scream Guests...
Shade Tree Winter Toy Drive
Nov. 22, 2019—Every year, the Shade Tree Social Work office hosts a clothing, food, and toy drive for Shade Tree patients and their families. To make this a success, MSTP students and their labs can get involved in the following ways: MSTP students can volunteer at the event, sign up here: https://forms.gle/gapaPVhiJaVSTiV6A! Students and their labs can...
Meet the new Stahlman-Thomas faculty advisor: Mary Philip, MD, PhD
Nov. 22, 2019—by Ayesha Muhammad (G2) Mary Philip MD, PhD, during her undergraduate studies in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale, thought she could not reconcile her passion for research with her desire to care for cancer patients. After discovering the MD/PhD pathway at the University of Chicago, she followed her interest in tumor immunology and hematology/oncology...
MSTPublications: October 2019
Oct. 29, 2019—Towards Machine Learning Prediction of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Intra-operative Efficacy Maps. Bermudez C, Rodriguez W, Huo Y, Hainline AE, Li R, Shults R, D’Haese PD, Konrad PE, Dawant BM, Landman BA. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng. 2019 Mar;10949. pii: 1094922. doi: 10.1117/12.2509728. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has the potential to improve the quality...
MSTPastime: An Interview with Simone Herzberg
Oct. 29, 2019—In this new MSTP Newsletter feature, we’ve decided to highlight students’ passions and hobbies, also known as “MSTPastimes.” by Danny Sack (G1) Simone Herzberg (M2) first started playing soccer when she was 5 years old. Her passion for the game led her to start coaching girls and boys clubs while in high school. She continued...
All About Grants Podcasts
Oct. 29, 2019—by Julie Gannon (MSTP Financial Unit & Grants Coordinator) Developing a thorough understanding of the grants process takes time. You can spend hours in workshops, webinars, or searching the internet for the information you need; or you can check out NIH’s All About Grants podcasts. More than 50 podcasts are available with topics such as...
Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) 2019 Recap
Oct. 29, 2019—by Natalie Bennett (G1) and Camille Wang (G1) The Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) is a gathering of current and aspiring physician-scientists from schools in the southeastern U.S. Hosted by the University of Alabama at Birmingham on October 12-13, attendees enjoyed keynote speakers, poster sessions, and breakout sessions. Perhaps most importantly, students and professionals across...
G1 Students Share Lab Choices
Sep. 30, 2019—The Vanderbilt MSTP would like to congratulate the G1 class on completing their first two years of medical school and on joining the following laboratories and graduate programs for their graduate studies! Here’s what they had to say about choosing their lab: “As an undergrad, I spent several years in a lab studying cancer metabolism,...
Vanderbilt well represented at first National Conference for Medical Student Mental Health
Sep. 30, 2019—by Maxwell Roeske (G2) Recent studies have demonstrated that 28% of medical students are depressed1, and 33% meet criteria for anxiety2. These staggeringly high prevalence rates are concerning to not only current medical students, but also residents, mental health professionals, medical school administrators and faculty. To address these issues, the inaugural National Conference for Medical...
Op-Ed: I see you, like myself, fearing the stigma of mental illness…
Sep. 29, 2019—by Anonymous Vanderbilt MSTP Student I see you, sitting in that waiting chair, pretending to read that magazine or that email on your phone. Perfectly aware of my presence, and yet making all efforts not to acknowledge it. I mean why would you? We are both in the counseling center here, which means we are...