Rhonda Kost, MD discusses research advancement through community engagement
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Rhonda G. Kost, MD delivers her presentation to researchers at Meharry Medical College's West Basic Sciences Building.
Meharry Associate Professor featured in Academic Medicine Podcast
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Virginia M. Brennan, PhD, Associate Professor at Meharry Medical College and Editor of the Journal for the Health Care for the Poor and Underserved was featured February 27, 2018, in the Academic Medicine Podcast.
MVA Executive Director contributes to Lancet blog on cardiovascular health in women
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Despite a decline in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality over the past decades, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death among men and women in the USA. Sex-specific differences in CVD prevention, diagnosis, and treatment persist, and CVD in women is under-researched, misdiagnosed, and inadequately treated.
Meharry alum serves as a mentor, guide and trailblazer
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Tiffany Megan Richburg, MD is a trailblazer. The Meharry Medical College (MMC) alum serves as an Assistant Professor within Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s (VUMC) Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology. She’s one of very few African American women within that field, making her a rarity among her peers.
Whose Central Line Is It Anyway returns
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Meharry-Vanderbilt Student Alliance members play Hula Hoop Trivia during the second Whose Central Line Is It Anyway variety show.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Hula Hoop Trivia. Pen in the Bottle. Dueling Saxophones.
MVA Staff present at Justice and Advocacy for Health in Tennessee Symposium
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Two Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance (MVA) staff presented as Gold Mining Session Leaders at the Justice and Advocacy for Health in Tennessee Symposium. Jacquelyn S. Favours, MPH, CPH, CHES and Pilar Prather, M.Ed presented “Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance: A Community-Academic Partnership Fostering Community-Engaged Research.” They introduced medical students to the concept of community-engaged research (CEnR) and provided examples of MVA community academic partnerships.
MVA Executive Director discusses ways to improve health outcomes at NEJM Catalyst
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Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI speaks during the NEJM Catalyst session.
MVA Executive Director featured in Newsweek
NASHVILLE, Tenn. A recent Newsweek article -- Should you take Calcium and Vitamin D? Benefits of supplements cast in doubt by new study -- featured Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI.