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Stories, moments and impact – the ripple of medicine
Photo by David Bailey In our profession, people matter. It sounds trite, yet with busy clinics and bustling personal lives it’s an axiom that may fade into the din of emails, calls, obligations and...
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Q + A: Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI
Q. What are your first steps in establishing the new Office of Health Equity? A. These first few months we’re trying to better understand the landscape of who within the Medical Center is conducting...
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Study seeks to expand treatment options for rare airway disease
Photo by Adobe Stock. Armed with $1.2 million in funding from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are searching to understand the...
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Letter from Ann Price, MD
Dear Vanderbilt Medical Alumni: Our Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Association board (VMAA) includes a number of highly dedicated Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) alumni as well as former...
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Giving in Action: Class of 1978 Scholarship
The generosity of the VUSM Class of 1978 helps current medical students. When the idea came to create an endowed scholarship in honor of their 30th Reunion, members of the School of Medicine Class of...
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Giving in Action: Armstrong Family Funds
Richard Armstrong, PhD, died in 2015, but a fund in his name ensures his legacy lives on. The story of Richard Armstrong, PhD, is a shining example of how one person’s life and legacy can have a...
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Geoffrey Berry, MD, HS’59, died May 7. He was 92. Dr. Berry was preceded in death by his son, Andrew, and is survived by his wife, Dora; children Christopher, Jane and Helen; nine grandchildren; and...
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1950s Angus W. Graham, MD’55, retired from his radiology practice in Manatee County, Florida, in 2016 at age 86. He and his wife, Wylene Barmore Graham, VUSN’56, have five children and 17...
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Alumni Profile: Selina Shah, MD, FACP
Getting a kick out of her unconventional career Photo by Jason Doiy Selina Shah, MD’00, HS’03, FACP, has studied and performed many styles of dance since the age of 3, including ballet, Indian...
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Alumni Profile: Andrew Camarata, MD
Called to Serve Photo by John Russell LCDR Andy Camarata, MD’06, is the oldest of seven children and the son of two academic speech pathologists. After sharing his experience with Vanderbilt University...
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Alumni Profile: Constance Mobley, MD, PhD
Transplant Trailblazer Photo by Felix Sanchez As a molecular physiology and biophysics doctoral student at Vanderbilt, Constance Mobley never had designs on practicing medicine. Her passions were in...
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To thrive in a world of change, welcome the new
Photo by David Bailey Today’s medicine sits at the intersection of expectation and limitation. We work amid breathless acceleration of technology, science and demand for what clinicians are expected to...
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Letter from Ann Price, MD
Dear Vanderbilt Medical Alumni: It’s clear that 2019 was a busy year for the Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Association (VMAA). We made a concerted effort to increase our presence and support for our VMAA...
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Q + A: Donald Brady, MD’90
Photo by Erin O. Smith In July 2019 Donald Brady, MD’90, assumed the role of Senior Associate Dean for Health Sciences Education at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Executive Vice-President...
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Alumni Profile: Airron Richardson, MD, MBA, FACEP
Career inspired by early influence Photo by Mary Rafferty Airron Richardson, MD’05, MBA’05, attended the University of Michigan on an athletic scholarship, came to the School of Medicine after a...
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1960s David Johnson, MD, MS, HS’69, FE’83, was honored as one of 15 Giants of Cancer Care at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago in May 2019. The award was given by OncLive,...
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Giving in Action: Brian Drolet, MD’09
Brian Drolet, MD’09, remembers the fortuitous phone call that dramatically changed the trajectory of his life. It was April 15, 2005 — the deadline to decide which medical school he would attend the...
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Giving in Action: Michael, MD’76, and Melissa Lojek, PhD’78
For Michael Lojek, MD’76, and his wife, Melissa, PhD’78, “generosity” is one of the words that comes to mind when they think about Vanderbilt. “Vanderbilt was very generous to me, to my wife, and to...
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George Allen, MD, PhD, who served for more than 25 years as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Vanderbilt, died Dec. 7, 2019. He was 77. Dr. Allen studied medicine at Washington...
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