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By Kyra Letsinger Following your dreams is a phrase so often repeated it can lose its impact. It seems simple: you listen to your heart and pursue the path to get there. In reality, achieving one’s dreams is not for the faint of heart. It is for those who are… Read More

The Class of 2025 is recognized at the 2025 Almost Alumni Luncheon. Photo: Anne Rayner. Each spring, Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Affairs alongside Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members for their contributions to student medical education, as voted upon by graduating M4s VUSM faculty, staff, and students celebrated… Read More

Class Day 2025 in Langford Auditorium. Photo: Anne Rayner. VUSM’s annual Class Day recognizes members of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards on Thursday, May 8, 2024: The Albert… Read More

Eskind Biomedical Library is a building that wears many hats. Beyond just a library, it’s a classroom, a gathering space, a historical archive, and a place where administrative magic happens. But EBL became something else entirely when engaged M4s Simone and Thomas Ueland asked Senior Associate Dean for Medical… Read More

By Kyra Letsinger Michael Greenberg and Yanelis Diaz Greenberg during their time as undergrads at the University of Central Florida. There is an old saying about young love that many pass off as nothing but a myth: “When you know you know.”  Vanderbilt University School of Medicine M4 Yanelis Diaz… Read More

Class Day 2024 in Langford Auditorium VUSM’s annual Class Day recognizes members of the graduating class for outstanding academic achievement, service, research, and leadership. VUSM faculty and fellow students celebrated the following recipients of school and departmental awards on Thursday, May 9, 2024: The Albert Weinstein Prize in… Read More

Almost Alumni Luncheon opening remarks from Dean Jeffrey Balser, MD, Ph.D. (Photo: Anne Rayner) Each spring, Vanderbilt Medical Alumni Affairs alongside Vanderbilt University School of Medicine recognizes outstanding faculty members for their contributions to student medical education, as voted upon by graduating M4s VUSM faculty, staff, and students celebrated the… Read More

As she approaches graduation, M4 Thao Le, Ph.D. reflects on finding her way and unlocking her passions at VUSM By Kyra Letsinger M4 MSTP student Thao Do Vy Le, Ph.D., was always ready to take risks. From a young age, when it came to new opportunities, she was not… Read More

M3 Gunther Wong and M4 Alison Swartz offer their peers valuable insights from their past career experiences By Kyra Letsinger In the early 2000s, former Associate Dean for Medical Student Affairs Bonnie Miller, MD, organized an unscheduled Deans’ Hour, a space in the curriculum created to provide a formal lecture… Read More