MSTP Blog
Vanderbilt MSTP Attends SACNAS and ABRCMS Conferences
Nov. 25, 2019—by Megan Williams, PhD (MSTP Leadership Team) Recently members of the MSTP Leadership Team attended the SACNAS and ABRCMS conferences. These are two conferences aimed at increasing diversity in science that we attend each year. SACNAS is The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science and each year they host The National...
VUMC Alum Jerry Jaboin, MD, PhD, Meets with Students
Nov. 22, 2019—by Stephanie Dudzinski (G5) Dr. Jerry Jaboin earned his M.D./Ph.D. from Howard University/National Cancer Institute before completing his Radiation Oncology residency at Vanderbilt. He is now an Associate Professor and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Radiation Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. Dr. Jaboin met with several MSTP students, in which we all shared...
Women in Training Social
Nov. 22, 2019—by Camille Wang (G1) The Women in Training (WIT) committee gathered for their first event of the academic year: a fall social on November 18, 2019. WIT aims to support women in the physician-scientist training pathway, with the long term goals of increasing retention of female physician-scientists and promoting long term career success. Both faculty...
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...
MSTP Student Advocacy and Activism
Oct. 31, 2019—Here are some of the many ways our students are involved in activism and advocacy! Maggie Axelrod (G3) Advocacy/Activism Role: Board member of the Tennessee Health Care Campaign, a non-profit with the vision of affordable, high-quality, equitable health care for all Tennesseans Why this is important to me: We have an unjust...
Inaugural MSTP Student Committee Leadership Summit
Oct. 31, 2019—by Kelsey McNew (G3) The MSTP Leadership Team, along with SAC Chair Kelsey McNew (G3) and Chair-Elect Maxwell Roeske (G2), held the inaugural Student Leadership Summit on September 27th, 2019. The chairs of all 15 MSTP committees got together to discuss how to better integrate the work done by their committees with the mission...
Physician-Scientists Represented by Dr. Williams at the 2019 Rally for Medical Research
Oct. 31, 2019—by Rachel Brown (G3) On September 18th-19th, 2019, Vanderbilt MSTP Director Chris Williams attended the 2019 Rally for Medical Research on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The annual Rally for Medical Research unites 350 organizations to form a broad coalition representing the medical research advocacy community. Rather than lobbying Members of Congress separately, representatives...
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Oct. 30, 2019—Check out Danny Sack (G2)‘s @VanderbiltMSTP Twitter Takeover! At the American Society of Human Genetics meeting this year, Ayesha Muhammad (G2) had delicious Pakistani food for 75% of her dinners. #geneticsandparathay Submit your #MSTPstar here
The Vanderbilt MSTP is on Slack!
Oct. 30, 2019—The Vanderbilt MSTP has created a Slack account (thanks to Kelsey McNew, G3) to serve as a platform for inter-class conversations organized by various interest groups. Slack consists of many “channels” that students can join. Each channel represents a particular interest group. After joining the channel, the conversations in that channel are visible to its members....
Honors and Awards – October 2019
Oct. 30, 2019—Congratulations to Aaron Lim (G4) for winning best graduate student talk at the Cancer Biology retreat! Congratulations to Courtney Edwards (G2) and Maggie Axelrod (G3) for top-rated abstracts & to Maggie for second place poster at the Cancer Biology retreat. Stephanie Dudzinski (G5) was awarded a Russell G. Hamilton Graduate Leadership Institute...
Life in the MSTP – October 2019
Oct. 30, 2019—James Satoshi LaDue was born to Ayaka Sugiura (G4) and Daniel LaDue on 9/30/19 at 8lb., 13oz. “We love him so much and can’t wait for everyone to meet him :),” says Ayaka! The VUSM Deans and Student Wellness Committee invited students to submit artwork for display in the Eskind Biomedical Library and Learning...
MSTPets: Part 13
Oct. 30, 2019—An ode to our furry (and not-so-furry) friends who help us study for anatomy practicals, keep us company while we write our papers and thesis dissertations, and welcome us home after a long shift on surgery. This month features Dr. Mary Philip’s dog, some of our new grants manager, Julie Gannon’s, pets, and a feral cat...
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...