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Recap: Annual Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Oct. 30, 2018—by Michael Raddatz (G2) This October 17-20th, the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) had its annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference addressed engineering solutions across the spectrum from sub-protein level biology to clinical medicine. Vanderbilt University was incredibly well-represented overall with 95 abstracts, the third most of any institution, and Professor Cynthia Reinhart-King winning the...
Senior Vice President at ABC News Gives Keynote Address at MSTP Leadership Workshop
Oct. 30, 2018—The MSTP Leadership Workshop (LW) I for junior graduate phase students was held on September 14th and attended by over 30 students in the graduate phase of training. The goal of this biennial workshop is to coach students on leadership competencies fundamental to success as a physician-scientist. As Dr. Chris Williams pointed out in his...
MSTPublications: October 2018
Oct. 30, 2018—Acinetobacter baumannii OxyR regulates the transcriptional response to hydrogen peroxide. Juttukonda LJ, Green ER, Lonergan ZR, Heffern MC, Chang CJ, Skaar EP. Infect Immun. 2018 Oct 8. pii: IAI.00413-18. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00413-18. [Epub ahead of print] Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that causes diverse infections, including pneumonia, bacteremia, and wound infections. Due to multiple...
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Oct. 16, 2018—Last month we started #MSTPstar: A running list of achievements in MSTP students’ ongoing quest to be adult humans! Here are a few of the fantastically wonderful normal things we did this month! Ben Fensterheim, Petria Thompson, Brad Reinfeld, and Katherine Konvinse wore matching shoes, and they looked good! Submit your #MSTPstar here!
Shade Tree Clinic: An opportunity for community service that drives MSTP professional development
Oct. 16, 2018—Shade Tree Clinic (STC), which currently provides free, comprehensive healthcare to approximately 350 patients in and around Nashville, has served to inspire and train medical students and MSTP students alike since its founding in 2004. Among the countless MSTP students who have served in leadership positions, a healthy majority (9/12) of those queried were enthusiastic...
Op-Ed: The MSTP Pathway to Match
Oct. 16, 2018—Towards the end of my clinical year, I started looking at the School of Medicine’s Pathway to Match page and was a little overwhelmed. Fortunately, the wards did prepare me to accept the bevy of new and unknown acronyms (NRMP, MSPE, ERAS), and the School of Medicine did a great job putting on programming to...
Life in the MSTP – September 2018
Oct. 16, 2018—Joe Luchsinger (G3) met Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH, at a Medical Research Rally in Washington DC! One of the families from Avery-Cohen welcomed new members at the annual dinner at Sitar! Spanning 6 generations, members of Goodpasture College and their families gathered for a barbecue and updated each other on their lives in and...
Honors and Awards – September 2018
Oct. 16, 2018— Congratulations to Matthew Stier (M4), Lillian Juttukonda (M4), Ben Fensterheim (M4), and Daniel Balikov (M4) on being inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA)! Congratulations to Dr. Krystian Kozek for successfully defending his thesis! Congratulations to Hernán González (G3) for receiving his F31 NRSA Fellowship! Read more about Hernán’s fellowship here.
Podcast: MD/PhD Training – Life in the Graduate Phase
Oct. 16, 2018—Ben Fensterheim (M4) sits down with students from the Vanderbilt MSTP to discuss their training in the MD/PhD program (so far!). On the program: Rachel Brown, Maggie Axelrod, Lizzie Flook, Michael Raddatz, Abin Abraham, and Patrick Wu, all G2s. If you’re considering medical school, graduate school, or an MD/PhD program, or you’re in the midst of one right now, you will really appreciate the words that these...
Meet Bryn Sierra, MSTP Program Manager
Oct. 16, 2018—Bryn by the numbers 6 colleges attended over… 13 years, earning… 3 degrees 26 total lifetime moves 1 year left before the big 4-0 2 super cute kiddos 1 Mechanical Engineer husband with… 7 RC airplanes currently in the garage 10 years working at Vandy 2 years working at Vandy while commuting from Cookeville 5...