VUSM Honors And Awards

Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across Vanderbilt University have been selected for the 2024 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. There are five fellows from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM). Read More

Wesley Ely, MD, MPH, Grant W. Liddle Professor of Medicine, co-director of the Center for Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and associate director for research for the VA’s Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), received the Paul B. Magnuson Award for Outstanding… 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

This spring, the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center named five people from the Vanderbilt community as recipients of its annual awards. The Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Leadership Award honors an undergraduate or graduate student who demonstrates leadership in activities that contribute to the achievements, interests and goals of women or that promote gender… Read More

Mark Petrovic (G1) received an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship!… Read More

  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… Read More

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. Read More

The Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (TNAAP) has awarded top honors to three physicians in the Vanderbilt Department of Pediatrics. TNAAP is a statewide professional membership and child advocacy organization dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children and adolescents. Each year, the organization’s annual… Read More