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Honors and Awards – March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—Simone Herzberg (M1) received the Dr. Robert F. Miller Award for Community Service and Engagement for the VUSM first year class! Graduating M4s were officially inducted into AOA, including MSTPs Daniel Balikov, Ben Fensterheim, Lillian Juttukonda, and Matthew Stier. The chapter also inducted faculty and residents including our very own Brian Grieb (’15). Rachel Brown (G2)...
We’re all #MSTPStars!
Mar. 28, 2019— Shan Parikh (M3) planted flowers on his balcony, and his vermiculture is flourishing! Courtney Edwards (G1) GOT A PUPPY!!! Her name is Keena, and she is 5 months old. Stay tuned for a future edition of MSTPets to learn more about Keena. Submit your #MSTPstar here
Life in the MSTP – March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—Congratulations to Selby and Kevin Graepel (G4), who welcomed daughter Sadie Vaughan Graepel to their family! Congratulations to J-N (M4), Jessica, and big sister Brigitte Gallant, who welcomed baby Arthur Louis Gallant to their family! Congratulations to Paula Smith (G2) and her husband, Peyton, on welcoming baby James to the world! ...
Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series Student Lecture: Pedro Teixeira, PhD
Mar. 28, 2019—by Danny Sack (G1) On Friday, March 22nd, Pedro Teixeira, PhD, presented a Flexner Deans’ Lecture on, “Lessons From Launching a Startup to Bring Artificial Intelligence to the Bedside (and write your notes)”. As we’ve reported in the past, Teixeira and his partners, Drs. Ravi Atreya and Michael Poku, have spent the past few years...
MSTPublications: March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—J-N Gallant’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Katherine Konvinse’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Applied Bioengineering in Tissue Reconstruction, Replacement, and Regeneration. Colazo JM, Evans BC, Farinas AF, Al-Kassis S, Duvall C, Thayer WP. Tissue Eng Part B Rev. 2019 Mar 21. doi:...
Meet Goodpasture College Advisor James Goldenring, MD, PhD
Mar. 28, 2019—by J-N Gallant (M4) James Goldenring was born in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up as the “Kennedy ideal”; as a Northeasterner with “a Yale degree and a Harvard education.” After completing his undergraduate studies at Harvard, he pursued a combined MD-PhD at Yale, focusing on molecular biochemistry and being, arguably, the first to purify...
Double Feature: Get to know Vanderbilt MSTP Director and Alumnus Chris Williams, M.D., Ph.D. (’02)
Jan. 31, 2019—by Rachel Brown (G2) As Vanderbilt MSTP trainees know, our own MSTP Director, Dr. Chris Williams, graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2002. Thus, we decided that an official Alumni Profile of Dr. Williams was long overdue. I sat down with Dr. Williams to ask him more about his training path, life as a physician-scientist,...
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Jan. 30, 2019—Riley Bergman (M1) kept up to date with her Anki deck over winter break! Alissa Cutrone (M2), in addition to finding time take her first ballet class in years, ate pizza and pasta for 10 days straight over break! Matt Loberg (M1) recently started a blog with college friends and joined the wave of MSTPers...
Alumni Corner
Jan. 30, 2019—Liz and Kevin Bersell (’18) hosted brunch on Christmas Eve for VMS friends who converged in the Boston area to visit family over the holidays. Pictured left to right are Matt Stier (M4), Rachel Brown (G2), Liz, Kevin, and their son Ben, Matt Puccetti (M3), Deirdre Finnegan Puccetti (VMS ’16), and Yuantee Zhu (G4+). Kevin...
State of the SAC
Jan. 30, 2019—Our fellow MSTP students, Kelsey and I were asked to write a brief State of the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) for the January newsletter reflecting on what has been accomplished over the past year and plans moving forward. As a composition of individual students, the MSTP has thrived over the past year due to the...