In My Life
Seth Christman, MD, HS’21
Mar. 27, 2024—Founder of East Nashville Wellness Center, a nonprofit mental health and substance use clinic for the underserved. Earned his MD from East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine. Completed his psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt and won the research award for studying accelerated aging in late-life depression. “I chose psychiatry after seeing firsthand how seriously...
Georgina Sellyn
Jul. 19, 2023—Reporting by Lexie Little Georgina Sellyn is a fourth-year medical student. A former Vanderbilt University tennis player, she plans to pursue a career in dermatology, combining her passion for skin cancer prevention with her love of the game. She is from Glasgow, Scotland. “With a passion for preventive health, specifically skin cancer prevention, I wanted...
Bruce Silverstein, MD’75
Jan. 3, 2023—Bruce Silverstein, MD’75 Postgraduate training in medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Utah and University of Washington. Full-time faculty professor at the University of Washington where he helps run the medical school curriculum. Started photography in college and medical school, often shooting for national magazines and NBC; assignments paid his medical school tuition. Ran...
Evan Mercer, MD’22
May. 16, 2022—Grew up in Marietta, Georgia Diagnosed at age 4 with sensorineural hearing loss Attended Vanderbilt University as an undergraduate and served as Mr. Commodore on the VU spirit team Served as a Student Affiliate Adviser, working to foster a sense of support for each member of VUSM’s Chapman College “There’s a perception that doctors have...
Amy Fleming, MD, MScHPE
Oct. 18, 2021—Associate dean for Medical Student Affairs since 2014 and professor of Pediatrics and professor of Medical Education and Administration U.S. Air Force veteran, following in the footsteps of her father, uncle and grandfathers. Attended the University of Virginia for undergraduate education and medical school and the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions for her...
Dustin and Dana Hipp
Mar. 19, 2021—Members of the VUSM class of 2013 Dustin is an assistant professor of Pediatrics, critical care medicine, and Dana completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. They recently moved back to Nashville where they are raising their three daughters. Photography by Donn Jones
Rachel Apple, MD’12
Oct. 5, 2020—Served as a chair and president of the Wellness Committee in medical school, started “PGY-Mom” at VUMC to support the unique needs of resident physician moms and founded Vanderbilt Physician Parent Group “Wellness has been important to me throughout my medical training. Although I have always aspired to find the right balance, I confess that...
Eskind Biomedical Library – Home to VUSM
Mar. 12, 2020— Originally built in the early 1990s Renovated in 2017-2018 with a $6 million gift from the Annette and Irwin Eskind family Meets Americans with Disabilities standards and LEED Silver certification standards From 1977-2018 Light Hall served as the medical education building for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. That changed in July 2018 when the...
Andrew Gregory, MD, FAAP, FACSM
Sep. 9, 2019—Andrew Gregory, MD, FAAP, FACSM Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery & Pediatrics Co-Director, Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center Associate Director, Sports Medicine Fellowship Team Physician for Nashville Christian School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville SC, USA Volleyball National Teams “My love of the outdoors and being physically active is a great foundation for my work in sports medicine....
Kris Rehm, MD
Feb. 28, 2019—Kris Rehm, MD Vice chair of Outreach Medicine and medical director of Hospital Operations for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Marathon runner; mother to two sets of twins; cancer survivor Attended Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and did her residency at Boston Children’s Hospital “I have the best job in the world!...
Jake Ramsey
Sep. 13, 2018—Second-year medical student from Santa Claus, Indiana Graduated from Purdue University in 2016 with a Bachelor of Science in pharmaceutical sciences The recipient of the Helen W. and Louis Rosenfeld Endowed Scholarship Fund and the Ethel and Louis Shivitz Scholarship “I was a little anxious moving to the South for medical school because I worried...
Nicole McCoin, MD’03, HS’06
Feb. 28, 2018—Vice chair of education and residency program director in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Macy Scholar, former VUSM course director and member of the Faculty Senate A native Nashvillian, she graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1999 with a degree in Biology and Math. “I believe that there is no such thing as a perfect...
Alex Chern
Sep. 22, 2017—Fourth-year student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; recipient of the 1982 School of Medicine Class Scholarship Graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Successfully recovered and continuing his studies after being hit by a car at a crosswalk near campus in April 2016 “I received great support from VUSM...
Kevin Johnson, M.D., MS
Mar. 1, 2017—Senior Vice President for Health Information Technology, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biomedical Informatics and professor of Pediatrics Co-sponsor of EpicLeap, a project to replace the majority of Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s clinical, administrative and billing software Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland “I embrace my inherently creative and curious nature nearly every day. As Einstein said, ‘It...
Varun K. Menon
Aug. 18, 2016—President of the first-year class and one of 91 first-year medical students who began their VUSM journey in July with a week of orientation activities and the traditional White Coat ceremony Born at Vanderbilt when his father, Satish Menon, D.O., HS ‘91- ‘94, was an anesthesiology resident Hometown: Martinsburg, West Virginia “My classmates and I...
Sir Norman (Tyler) Melancon
Aug. 21, 2015—Sir Norman (Tyler) Melancon Second-year medical student; former linebacker for Dartmouth College Recipient of the Bess & Townsend McVeigh Scholarship Hometown: Parker, Texas
Suzie Brown, M.D.
Feb. 10, 2015—“Medicine satisfies the more quantitative ‘left brain’ part of my personality, and helping people gives me immense fulfillment and sense of purpose. One of the necessary parts of being a good doctor is putting your own personal needs behind that of the patients, their families, residents and nurses. To me, that is difficult at times....
Matt Correia
Aug. 6, 2014—Meet Matt Correia from the VUSM Class of 2016