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NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Precision Medicine and Health Disparities Collaborative (PMDHC) is inviting pilot projects that address both the precision medicine and health disparities. Click here to view the Request for Applications.   Key Dates Deadline to Request Pre-Application Consultation (for guidance on preparing your application): Friday, November 2, 2018

Jamaine Davis, PhD, Meharry Medical College; Stephen Deppen, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; and Kim Sandler, MD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center  

Photo by Matt Schorr Well over 100 attendees registered to attend the “Navigating the Pre-Health Path" summit.   NASHVILLE, Tenn. Encouragement, resilience and passion were the key messages on September 22, 2018, during “Navigating the Pre-Health Path,” a summit for black men interested in health professions.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI was featured in the October 1, 2018, episode of the NIH Collaboratory Grand Rounds podcast.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. As the daughter of a nurse, Sarah Bland, MBA, MPH grew up surrounded by the medical field. That, coupled with her interests in healthcare, made a career in that field almost a foregone conclusion. “I’m a nerd,” Bland quipped. “So I was always thinking, ‘How can we do healthcare better?’”  

Photo by Matt Schorr University of Chicago Medicine Chief of the Section for Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Executive Vice President for Community Health Engagement Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr., MD, MPH; Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI; and 16th Surgeon General of the United States David Satcher, MD, PhD.

Office Hours for Complex Care: How to Establish and Maintain Street Medicine Programs within a Hospital Setting Dr. Sheryl Fleisch, a psychiatrist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), will discuss her experience with her successful street psychiatry program, embedded within VUMC. Dr. Fleisch will then answer questions about how to launch and maintain similar programs in partnership with hospitals and medical centers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Juan Escarfuller, MA, MDiv, who joins the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance (MVA) as Engagement Liaison for the All of Us (AOU) Research Program, works at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as a multilingual health coach and program manager.

The Tennessee Health Care Annual Health Advocacy Conference is scheduled for September 15. It will be held at the Nashville School of Law. Consumer advocate and former insurance company executive Wendell Potter, author of investigative books on our health insurance system (Deadly Spin; Obamacare: What's in It for Me) and the influence of money on policy-making (Nation on the Take), will be keynoting.