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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Although the specifics of her career path shifted, Teris Taylor always intended to work in healthcare. Throughout her childhood and high school years, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance’s (MVA) latest Research Immersion student planned to enter maternal health care. That changed in college, however. “Up until I was a senior in high school, I always wanted to be an OB/GYN,” Taylor recalled.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Metro Health Department and Safety Net Consortium of Middle Tennessee (SNCMT) hosted an official launch for the newly revamped My Healthcare Home website – www.MyHCHTN.org – this week. Members of the health department and the SNCMT clinics gathered to discuss the site’s capabilities and plan for its future use.

The VUMC African American Employee Resource Group (AA ERG), which is a new employee group along with the Veterans, LGBTQ and Hispanic/Latino employee groups that VUMC started to provide various employee-led support and engagement.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Amir Elraheb’s journey to the healthcare field had several unexpected and, perhaps, unlikely turns. In fact, he didn’t initially see himself entering healthcare at all. “But life happened,” the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance’s (MVA) new Associate Program Manager recalled with a smile.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. In 2016, the Precision Medicine & Health Disparities Collaborative (PMHDC) launched with a simple mission: provide resources for research teams using precision medicine to eliminate health disparities. In the years that followed, its objectives encompassed science, education and advocacy.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance’s (MVA) Interprofessional Education (IPE) pillar is changing. Since it began in 1999, one of the MVA’s primary goals was to create innovative means for interprofessional and educational collaboration between academia and the community. Likewise, its mission is to make a lasting, positive impact. With that in mind, the IPE faculty believed it was time to restructure future sessions to incorporate new ideas, new strategies and new approaches.  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. “The opposite of addiction is connection,” Monty Burks, PhD., State Director of Faith-Based Initiatives for the Tennessee Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services professed to a room full of faith leaders. “The opposite of addiction is connection.”  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Twenty-one participant partners from across the United States joined about 400 of their fellow All of Us Research Program (AoURP) consortium members for two full days of learning, networking and honest conversations about this historic effort at the AoURP Face to Face Meeting in Bethesda, Maryland from October 28 through 30, 2019.  

In 1999 Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center announced the establishment of a formal alliance to enhance the educational, scientific and clinical programs at and between both institutions.