MSTP Blog
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...
Honors and Awards – November 2023
Nov. 29, 2023—Neil Chada (G2) placed first in graduate student oral presentations and Nada Elsayed (G2) received first place in graduate student poster presentations at SEMSS this year! Dr. Matthew O’Neill (M4) was the winner of the Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Investigator Award Competition by the American Heart Association. Matthew received the award at the organization’s 2023 Scientific Sessions following the presentation...
Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS)
Nov. 29, 2023—A group of 11 Vanderbilt MSTP students attended the Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium (SEMSS) at Emory this year and presented posters and gave oral presentations. Some of our students and members of our Leadership Team served on the breakout room panels as well. Congratulations to Nada Elsayed (G2) and Neil Chada (G2) for winning presentation...
Life in the MSTP – November 2023
Nov. 29, 2023—Congratulations to Allie Lake (G3) and Bernie Mulvey who recently got married with many MSTP classmates in attendance! MSTP students ran into alum Dr. Ayesha Muhammad (class of 2023) at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference this year in Washington DC. MSTP students at the annual Cancer Biology Program Retreat. Current MSTP students Sarah Reed (G3)...
ADI Highlights
Nov. 29, 2023—MSTP ADI Media Club The MSTP ADI Council hosted a fall media club, “A Reflection on the Tennessee Three,” where students watched C-SPAN recordings of the expulsion hearings of representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson and had a moderated discussion about the events. Thank you to Matt Loberg (G4) for organizing!
Meet the new Edwards-Goodpasture PSTP Associate College Advisor: Nick Parrish, MD, PhD
Nov. 29, 2023—by Camella Carlson (G1) Dr. Nick Parrish is a general surgery chief resident at Vanderbilt and leader of a research team at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Yokohama, Japan. His clinical interests are in transplant surgery and his research seeks to understand the interactions between an organism’s genome and it’s viruses. He...
MSTPublications: November 2023
Nov. 29, 2023—Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor activation stimulates PKA-mediated phosphorylation of raptor and this contributes to the weight loss effect of liraglutide. Le TDV, Liu D, Besing GK, Raghavan R, Ellis BJ, Ceddia RP, Collins S, Ayala JE. Elife. 2023 Nov 6;12:e80944. doi: 10.7554/eLife.80944. Online ahead of print. The canonical target of the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R), Protein...
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Oct. 31, 2023—#MSTPstar features a selection of some of amazing things we do in our real lives: finding new/enjoying old study spots, making time to purchase food so our bodies have calories, remembering where we parked our car, etc. Submit your #MSTPstar here. Stephanie Cajigas (G4), in the halloween spirit, crocheted a super cute Frankenstein and cauldron!
Life in the MSTP – February 2023
Feb. 27, 2023— Connor Beebout (M4) and his wife Alex (postdoc) welcomed their new son Aaron into the world on January 28! Zachary Ewell (M1), played Toccata and Fugue in D minor, often referred to as “Dorian,” by Johann Sebastian Bach, on the organ for the BRET 2022 Winter Showcase. Recently the M1 and M4...
Honors and Awards – February 2023
Feb. 27, 2023—Simone Herzberg (G3) received her NIH NRSA F31!
MSTP Publications: February 2023
Feb. 27, 2023—The interictal suppression hypothesis in focal epilepsy: network-level supporting evidence. Johnson GW, Doss DJ, Morgan VL, Paulo DL, Cai LY, Shless JS, Negi AS, Gummadavelli A, Kang H, Reddy SB, Naftel RP, Bick SK, Roberson SW, Dawant BM, Wallace MT, Englot DJ. Brain. 2023 Feb 1:awad016. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad016. Online ahead of print. Why are people...
Vanderbilt Undergraduate-MSTP Mentorship Program
Feb. 27, 2023—by Hailey Kresge (G1) I participated in Vanderbilt’s undergraduate/MSTP mentorship program as a Vanderbilt undergraduate back in 2016 and found that interactions with current MSTP students was one of the most helpful things in confirming my interest in pursuing a MD/PhD. Since joining the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2020, I wanted to re-start this program to...
Alumni Profile: Mary Ellen Koran, M.D., Ph.D. (’16)
Feb. 27, 2023—by Camella Carlson (M2) Dr. Mary Ellen Koran is a 2016 graduate of the Vanderbilt MSTP and is back at Vanderbilt as an Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences in the Nuclear Medicine division. As part of the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center, she is focused on novel positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracers and...
Life in the MSTP – January 2023
Jan. 31, 2023—The G4 class made bao and watched House of the Dragon together! Edwards-Goodpasture hosted a Tie Dye Party for their recent College Advisory Board (CAB) Day at MSTP seminar! To kickoff MSTP Seminar for the year, the MSTP Wellness Committee hosted a “Create & Reflect” day where everyone potted plants and reflected on the growth...