Alumni
Meet the Goodpasture PSTP Associate College Advisors: Dr. David Meoli and Dr. Niki Winters (Vanderbilt MSTP ’15)
Jan. 30, 2017—Get to know a little bit more about the Goodpasture PSTP Associate College Advisors! by Rachel Brown (M2) David Meoli, M.D., Ph.D. What residency/fellowship program and year are you in? I am PGY 6 in cardiology. I have completed two years of Internal Medicine residency and two years of Cardiology clinical fellowship. I am currently...
Alumni Profile: John Erickson, M.D., Ph.D. (’15)
Jan. 30, 2017—by Abin Abraham (M2) Dr. John Erickson, M.D., Ph.D. Resident Physician, PL-2 The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vanderbilt MSTP Graduate, 2015 I attended college at Case Western Reserve University, majored in Biology, and studied mechanisms of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance in the laboratory of Peter Zimmerman. At Vanderbilt, under the mentorship of John V. Williams,...
Alumni Profile: M. Indriati Hood-Pishchany, M.D., Ph.D. (’14)
Dec. 20, 2016—by Abin Abraham (M2) Dr. M. Indriati Hood-Pishchany, M.D., Ph.D. Fellow in Infectious Diseases Boston Children’s Hospital Vanderbilt MSTP Graduate, 2014 Dr. Indriati Hood-Pishchany graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2014 and went on to complete residency training in Pediatrics in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. She...
Alumni Profile: Erik Musiek, M.D., Ph.D. (’07)
Nov. 29, 2016—by Abin Abraham (M2) Dr. Erik Musiek, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis Vanderbilt MSTP Graduate, 2007 Dr. Musiek entered the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2000 and completed his thesis work in the lab of the late Dr. Jason Morrow, with Dr. BethAnn McLaughlin in Neurology as a co-mentor. He worked on...
Alumni Profile: Caroline (Lai) Kang, M.D., Ph.D. (’15)
Jul. 21, 2016—by Abin Abraham (M2) Dr. Caroline (Lai) Kang recently graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP program in 2015. She is currently a general surgery intern in her first year of the urology residency program at Vanderbilt University. For her PhD, she studied the role of endothelial cells in bloodstream dissemination of reovirus under the mentorship of...
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...
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...
MSTP Alumni Selected for Dana-Farber Leadership Council
Dec. 30, 2015—Two Vanderbilt MSTP graduates, Sameer Chopra, M.D., Ph.D. and Jennifer Rosenbluth, M.D., Ph.D., are serving on the Dana-Farber Leadership Council. The DFLC is an annual funding opportunity to provide current use support for current DFCI trainees. Sameer Chopra, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Chopra is a third year clinical fellow in Hematology/Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He received both undergraduate...