MVA Research Student's career goals shifted in college
Matt Schorr
February 10, 2020
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.
My Healthcare Home website an effective tool to find quality care
Matt Schorr
February 7, 2020
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.
An unforeseeable path brought Amir Elraheb to the MVA
Matt Schorr
January 30, 2020
PMHDC members discuss challenges and plans at third in-person meeting
Matt Schorr
January 14, 2020
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.
MVA's Interprofessional Education pillar restructuring
Matt Schorr
December 11, 2019
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.
Faith leaders and researchers talk 'substance abuse and addiction'
Matt Schorr
December 2, 2019
All of Us Research Program Participant Partners join fellow consortium members at Face-to-Face Meeting
Selena Carpenter
November 27, 2019
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.