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Photo by Matt Schorr Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Postdoctoral Research Fellow Juan Canedo received the Hispanic Heritage Leadership Award for 2017 from the Tennessee Titans.  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry Medical College will host a live stream viewing of TED Med Live 2017 Nov. 1 – 3, 2017. The three-day conference will parallel various aspects of the TED conference, through networking opportunities and discussion panels. It will be held at the Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education, 1011 21st Avenue North, Nashville.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Alzheimer's Association is excited to announce its International Research Grant Program Announcement for the 2018 January Program. Application procedures and key dates are now available, visit alz.org/grants for information regarding eligibility and requirements.

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. For Alecia Fair, joining the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance (MVA) is a culmination of both her professional and personal goals. Dr. Fair served as an Assistant Professor of Surgery with MMC between 2003 and 2011.  “I was previously a faculty member at Meharry Medical College’s (MMC) Department of Surgery on a U54 Cancer Partnership/ American Cancer Society  project on abnormal mammography follow-up in medically underserved women,” she explained.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Friday, September 29, 2017, at 12 pm, Flexner Deans' Lecture Series presents the Satcher Lecture with Hannah Valantine, MD, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, speaking on the topic, "NIH Addresses the Science of Diversity: Focusing on Institutional Change."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On October 11, 2017, the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine will host "TGFß: Discovery to Translation," a research symposium honoring the life of Harold Moses, MD, at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. Make sure to mark your calendars!    

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Yvonne Joosten, MPH and Tiffany Israel, MSSW were mentioned in a recent Scientific American article, "Many Pediatric Studies Are a Waste of Time." The article, written by Charles Schmidt, discusses new initiatives that hope to overcome obstacles hindering the discovery of useful treatments for children.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The latest Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance student intern, Kelly McHugh, is still working out the specific direction her career path will take. With two years left in her academic career, she certainly has time to determine such things. However, broadly speaking, she knows exactly where she wants to target her energies. “I want to be focused on community engagement,” she says, “to address health equity.”

Photo by Jacquelyn Favours, MPH, CHES Public Health Consultant Barbara Clinton, MSW, LAPSW; Allysceaeioun B. Spears, PhD, MPH from the Tennessee Department of Health; D’Yuanna Allen-Robb, MPH from the Metro Public Health Department; and Amy Richardson, MPH from Siloam Health.