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Mar. 28, 2019— Shan Parikh (M3) planted flowers on his balcony, and his vermiculture is flourishing! Courtney Edwards (G1) GOT A PUPPY!!! Her name is Keena, and she is 5 months old. Stay tuned for a future edition of MSTPets to learn more about Keena. Submit your #MSTPstar here
Life in the MSTP – March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—Congratulations to Selby and Kevin Graepel (G4), who welcomed daughter Sadie Vaughan Graepel to their family! Congratulations to J-N (M4), Jessica, and big sister Brigitte Gallant, who welcomed baby Arthur Louis Gallant to their family! Congratulations to Paula Smith (G2) and her husband, Peyton, on welcoming baby James to the world! ...
Flexner Deans’ Lecture Series Student Lecture: Pedro Teixeira, PhD
Mar. 28, 2019—by Danny Sack (G1) On Friday, March 22nd, Pedro Teixeira, PhD, presented a Flexner Deans’ Lecture on, “Lessons From Launching a Startup to Bring Artificial Intelligence to the Bedside (and write your notes)”. As we’ve reported in the past, Teixeira and his partners, Drs. Ravi Atreya and Michael Poku, have spent the past few years...
MSTPublications: March 2019
Mar. 28, 2019—J-N Gallant’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Katherine Konvinse’s recent first-author paper was featured here in the VUMC Reporter! Applied Bioengineering in Tissue Reconstruction, Replacement, and Regeneration. Colazo JM, Evans BC, Farinas AF, Al-Kassis S, Duvall C, Thayer WP. Tissue Eng Part B Rev. 2019 Mar 21. doi:...
Meet Goodpasture College Advisor James Goldenring, MD, PhD
Mar. 28, 2019—by J-N Gallant (M4) James Goldenring was born in New Haven, Connecticut and grew up as the “Kennedy ideal”; as a Northeasterner with “a Yale degree and a Harvard education.” After completing his undergraduate studies at Harvard, he pursued a combined MD-PhD at Yale, focusing on molecular biochemistry and being, arguably, the first to purify...
We’re all #MSTPStars!
Feb. 26, 2019—Thao Le (G1) and Danny Sack (G1) independently carved time out of their busy schedules to go to the gym on a Tuesday…at 2pm. Anonymous MSTPStar baker: “After my first sourdough starter that I flew with me to Nashville and kept active for five years perished in an unfortunate bout of odd pink mold, I...
Life in the MSTP – February 2019
Feb. 26, 2019—Yasminye Pettway (M1), Bola Adebesin (M2), and Thao Le (G1) gathered for an MSTP family dinner. Ayesha Muhammad (G1) spent a wonderful afternoon riding a horse hilariously named “Shah Rukh Khan” at the beach in her hometown of Karachi, Pakistan. Congratulations to Steph Dudzinski (G4) and Sumeeth Jonathan (G4) who...
Honors and Awards – February 2019
Feb. 26, 2019— Congratulations to Alex Sundermann, Ph.D. (G4) on completing her dissertation defense! Congratulations to Matt Wleklinski (G2) on receiving an F30 NRSA Individual Predoctoral Fellowship!
Training the Physician-Scientist: Views from Program Directors and Aspiring Young Investigators
Feb. 26, 2019—Read MSTP Director Christopher Williams, MD, PhD‘s Op-Ed published recently in JCI Insight. Training the physician-scientist: views from program directors and aspiring young investigators. Williams CS, Iness AN, Baron RM, Ajijola OA, Hu PJ, Vyas JM, Baiocchi R, Adami AJ, Lever JM, Klein PS, Demer L, Madaio M, Geraci M, Brass LF, Blanchard M, Salata...
Recent Op-Eds by Members of the MSTP
Feb. 26, 2019—Members of our program recently contributed to the following Op-Eds about Medical Education: Training the physician-scientist: views from program directors and aspiring young investigators by MSTP Director Christopher Williams, M.D., Ph.D. Getting Our Priorities Right: Social Determinants of Health in Medical Education by Michael Raddatz (G2) Student Perspectives on the “Step 1 Climate”...
Twitter Takeovers: A Day in the Life of a Vanderbilt MSTP Trainee
Feb. 26, 2019—Our MSTP students have been Tweeting from our official @VanderbiltMSTP Twitter account for a day to give prospective students an idea of what life is like as an MSTP trainee at Vanderbilt! Click here to see a day in the life of Katherine Konvinse (G4). Click here to see a day in the life of Kelsey...
MSTPublications: February 2019
Feb. 26, 2019—On-target resistance to the mutant-selective EGFR inhibitor osimertinib can develop in an allele specific manner dependent on the original EGFR activating mutation. Brown BP, Zhang YK, Westover D, Yan Y, Qiao H, Huang V, Du Z, Smith JA, Ross JS, Miller VA, Ali SM, Bazhenova L, Schrock AB, Meiler J, Lovly CM. Clin Cancer Res....
Double Feature: Get to know Vanderbilt MSTP Director and Alumnus Chris Williams, M.D., Ph.D. (’02)
Jan. 31, 2019—by Rachel Brown (G2) As Vanderbilt MSTP trainees know, our own MSTP Director, Dr. Chris Williams, graduated from the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2002. Thus, we decided that an official Alumni Profile of Dr. Williams was long overdue. I sat down with Dr. Williams to ask him more about his training path, life as a physician-scientist,...
We’re all #MSTPstars!
Jan. 30, 2019—Riley Bergman (M1) kept up to date with her Anki deck over winter break! Alissa Cutrone (M2), in addition to finding time take her first ballet class in years, ate pizza and pasta for 10 days straight over break! Matt Loberg (M1) recently started a blog with college friends and joined the wave of MSTPers...
Alumni Corner
Jan. 30, 2019—Liz and Kevin Bersell (’18) hosted brunch on Christmas Eve for VMS friends who converged in the Boston area to visit family over the holidays. Pictured left to right are Matt Stier (M4), Rachel Brown (G2), Liz, Kevin, and their son Ben, Matt Puccetti (M3), Deirdre Finnegan Puccetti (VMS ’16), and Yuantee Zhu (G4+). Kevin...