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Life in the MSTP – January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—Dr. Lourdes Estrada (MSTP Associate Director), her husband Larry, and their sweet pup Sadie just finished logging for their log cabin. Next comes peeling and stacking! John Shelley (G4) had a neighborhood block party thanks to our winter storm! Congratulations to Stephanie Cajigas (G4) and Christopher Gabriel who got married over the holidays! Congratulations...
Honors and Awards – January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!
MSTP Seminar Wellness Panel
Jan. 30, 2024—by Jack Trapani (G1) To kick off the new year, the MSTP Wellness Committee hosted MSTP Seminar on Wednesday, January 3rd. Titled “Making Space for Your Personal Life,” Drs. Ben Ho Park, Brian Grieb, Nathaniel Bloodworth, Jeffrey Schmeckpeper, Celestine Wanjalla, and Jean Wassenaar spoke as panelists. They each gave students actionable advice on how to...
MSTPublications: January 2024
Jan. 30, 2024—Approximating Projections of Conformational Boltzmann Distributions with AlphaFold2 Predictions: Opportunities and Limitations. Brown BP, Stein RA, Meiler J, Mchaourab HS. J Chem Theory Comput. 2024 Jan 12. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c01081. Online ahead of print. Protein thermodynamics is intimately tied to biological function and can enable processes such as signal transduction, enzyme catalysis, and molecular recognition. The...
Life in the MSTP – December 2023
Dec. 18, 2023— The annual MSTP Winter Chili Party hosted by the MSTP Wellness Committee was another big success! Full of chili, a giant charcuterie board, bluegrass music, and white elephant present exchanges, everyone had a great time! Thank you to Kimmy Bress (G2), Kevin Zhang (G1), Bryn Sierra (MSTP Program Manager), and the rest of the...
ADI Highlights
Dec. 18, 2023—Candace Grisham (G3) and Dr. Megan Williams (MSTP Assistant Director) presented a poster on the ADI Council’s Longitudinal Curriculum in Health and Research Equity for the MSTP including information on the a new summer course called Foundations in Health and Research Equity for MSTP students at the Vanderbilt Health Professions Education Research Day.
Shade Tree Clinic Benefit
Dec. 18, 2023—By Kimmy Bress (G2) Shade Tree Clinic is Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s student run health clinic which provides free medical care to underserved, uninsured, and homeless adults and children in Nashville. MSTP students play a key role in Shade Tree Clinic, and benefit immensely from the opportunity maintain clinical skills through service at Shade...
Physician-Scientist Speaker Series with Amanda Doran, MD, PhD
Dec. 18, 2023—by Neil Chada (G2) On December 5th, 2023, the Vanderbilt MSTP had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Amanda Doran for the Fall Physician-Scientist Speaker Series (PSSS). Dr. Doran is a cardiologist-scientist at VUMC with appointments in the Departments of Cardiovascular Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Molecular Physiology & Biophysics. Originally from Belleair Beach, Florida,...
MSTPublications: December 2023
Dec. 18, 2023—Developing and evaluating pediatric phecodes (Peds-Phecodes) for high-throughput phenotyping using electronic health records. Grabowska ME, Van Driest SL, Robinson JR, Patrick AE, Guardo C, Gangireddy S, Ong HH, Feng Q, Carroll R, Kannankeril PJ, Wei WQ. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 Dec 1:ocad233. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocad233. Online ahead of print. Objective: Pediatric patients have different...
Honors and Awards – December 2023
Dec. 18, 2023— Congratulations to Mark Rusznak (G3) and Hailey Kresge (G2) for receiving NIH NRSA F30 Fellowships! Congratulations to Camella Carlson (G1) and Sharon Fernandez (G1) for their recent admission into the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) which recognizes individuals who are exemplars of humanistic patient care and who can serve as role models, mentors, and leaders in...