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Photo by Matt Schorr 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.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI was featured in the October 1, 2018, episode of the NIH Collaboratory Grand Rounds podcast.

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?’”  

Photo by Matt Schorr 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.

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Juan Escarfuller, MA, MDiv, who joins the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance (MVA) as Engagement Liaison for the All of Us (AOU) Research Program, works at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) as a multilingual health coach and program manager.

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.

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.”  

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.