School Of Medicine

Vanderbilt health sciences graduate and professional students are invited to join together for food and refreshments before the Vanderbilt baseball game against the University of Georgia on Friday, March 31 at 4 p.m. Read More

Donald Brady, executive vice dean for academic affairs, has announced a number of leadership promotions within Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. These promotions recognize the outstanding contributions of VUSM leaders to the mission of the School of Medicine and provide an opportunity for the Office of Health Sciences Education to grow more efficient as Vanderbilt remains a national and international leader in health sciences education. Read More

Alex Lupi and Eki Olumese, both fourth-year medical students, will give a Flexner Deans' Lecture on Monday, March 27, beginning at noon in the Langford Auditorium. Lupi's lecture will focus on lifelong learning, while Olumese will speak about decolonizing global health. Read More

A clinical patient encounter led two Medical Innovators Development Program students to develop a potentially life-saving technology through an industry immersion experience with GE HealthCare. Read More

Dr. John Tarpley, professor emeritus of surgery and anesthesiology, and Margaret Tarpley, adjunct instructor in surgery, will present “Experiences and Reflections on Medical Education in Sub-Saharan Africa” on Monday, March 6, at noon in Langford Auditorium. The talk is Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s 2023 Elizabeth Williams Simpson Visiting Lecture. Read More

Five Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members were elected 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read More

Dr. André L. Churchwell was honored with a Diamond Award for lifetime achievement in advancing diversity during a celebration that brought together prominent leaders in business, education, entertainment, government and more on Jan. 21. Read More

How does climate change affect human health? How are animals and ecosystems similarly influenced, and how are these impacts interconnected? Join Charles Sanders, associate dean for research and professor of biochemistry, as he delves into these questions and more during the next Lab-to-Table Conversation from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences. Read More

Jay Wellons, Cal Turner Professor and professor of neurological surgery, will deliver the Vanderbilt School of Medicine’s Flexner Deans’ Discovery Lecture on Monday, Dec. 12, at noon in Langford Auditorium. Read More

Professional schools across the university helped set the stage for Discovery Vanderbilt’s commitment to expanding research and collaboration. Read More

Researchers in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have received three grants totaling $13.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop molecular “atlases” of the brain, kidney, eye and other tissues. Read More

E. Wesley Ely, Grant W. Liddle Professor and professor of medicine, will discuss “Every Deep-drawn Breath: Vanderbilt’s role in Revolutionizing ICU Care Globally” on Tuesday, Oct. 25, beginning at noon in Light Hall, Room 202. Read More

The Vanderbilt Innovation Ambassadors Program is an initiative to provide Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers with better peer-delivered access to assistance and information about innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Read More

Applications are open for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine’s new Master of Imaging Science program. Students in this 12-month program will learn a whole-process approach that spans the spectrum of imaging science in pre-clinical, human and clinical environments, culminating in research mentored by Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science faculty. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University professors from different academic fields—history, medicine, law and computing—will come together for a wide-ranging discussion on data privacy concerns on Thursday, Oct. 6. The discussion, which is free and open to the public, will be at 5 p.m. in the Central Library Community Room. Read More

The annual Simple Beginnings Ph.D. Lab Coat Ceremony commemorates the advent of a new class of School of Medicine doctoral students at Vanderbilt. Watch the ceremony online from 2 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 2. Read More

At the beginning of 2022, the School of Medicine launched a $5 million Dean’s Scholarship Challenge to help ensure that tomorrow’s leaders in medicine are educated at Vanderbilt. The success of the early months of the effort has prompted the university to boost the available matching funds by $5 million. Read More

Margaret Axelrod, Rachel Brown and Simone Herzberg, aspiring physician-scientists in Vanderbilt’s Medical Scientist Training Program, are among this year’s recipients of highly competitive P.E.O. Scholar Awards. Recipients of the $20,000 awards are women from the U.S. and Canada pursuing doctoral-level degrees who have demonstrated their ability to make significant contributions in their chosen fields. Read More

Mariana Byndloss, assistant professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, and William Wan, assistant professor of biochemistry, have been named 2022 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust have selected Alexander Bick, assistant professor of genetic medicine, to join the 2022 class of Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research.  Read More

Two Vanderbilt professors were awarded Pathfinder seed funding for a project that could benefit soldiers by optimizing their neurological performance through suggested behavior protocol and by improving aircraft design and equipment to reduce the effects of in-flight vibration and percussion. Read More