'Navigating the Pre-Health Path' summit hopes to bring more black men into the health field
Matt Schorr
October 15, 2018
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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.
New MVA Project Manager hopes to improve her understanding of health disparities and healthcare
Matt Schorr
September 20, 2018
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?’”
Selwyn Rogers and David Satcher discuss ‘Violence Seen through a Public Health Lens’
Matt Schorr
September 17, 2018
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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.
National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs schedules online "Office Hours" sessions
Matt Schorr
September 13, 2018
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.
Tennessee Health Care Annual Health Advocacy Conference is scheduled for September 15
Matt Schorr
August 20, 2018
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.
James Trotter happy for opportunity to work with MVA
Matt Schorr
August 10, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. For James Trotter, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance’s (MVA) new Project Manager, joining the MVA team was all about opportunity.
“It was an opportunity for me to get back into project management,” he said. “I wanted to get back into project management, and this was a place where I could grow.”
Summer research student working toward improving identification of autism
Matt Schorr
August 6, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Brittany Landry’s interest in medicine was cultivated at an early age. For most of her childhood, she lived with her grandparents in Plattenville, LA. She came in contact with several nurses throughout those years, and that sparked an interest in the medical field.
As she got older, she began shadowing physicians to get better insight into what being a doctor entailed. She then went to Xavier University of Louisiana to study Biology and earn a Bachelor of Science Degree.