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Meet the Team Behind the MSTP Newsletter and Blog!
Jul. 29, 2025—MSTP newsletter team members Dr. Megan Williams (MSTP LT), Anvith (G2, Managing Editor/Incoming Editor in Chief), Dayle (G2, Managing Editor/Incoming Editor in Chief), Landon (G2, Social Media Chair), Jeewoo (G4, Outgoing Editor in Chief), and Maddie (Program Assistant, Typesetter). We’re looking forward to our team growing with the addition of M1s – G1s!
This Month in Science and Medicine History – June 2025
Jun. 25, 2025—by Leigh Ann Gardner (MSTP Senior Grants Manager) June 1: Born on June 1, 1951, in Couva, Trinidad & Tobago, Dr. Lall Ramnath Sawh is a noted urologist and performed the first kidney transplant in the Caribbean from a live donor to the recipient. Although Sawh spent his childhood helping his parents sell items in...
Meet the MSTP Summer Research Program Scholars
Jun. 25, 2025—This summer, the Vanderbilt MSTP is hosting 7 undergraduate MSTP Summer Scholars. This summer program is designed to expose students from across the nation to the career of a physician-scientist and help prepare them to apply to MD/PhD programs. These students are on campus for 9 weeks completing a research project and gaining clinical shadowing...
Mini MSTP 2025
Jun. 25, 2025—By Ericka Randazzo (G3) On May 12th, the MSTP Outreach Committee coordinated the annual Mini-MSTP. More than 60 children from 8 Dickson County elementary schools participated in the event on Vanderbilt’s campus, which highlighted physician-scientist experiences and educated students about physician-scientist career paths. The event included multiple stations related to medicine and science. Stations were...
Meet the New PSTP Associate College Advisor for Edwards-Goodpasture: Brandon Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Dec. 30, 2024—by Ghassan Makhoul (G2) Medical Scientist Training Program: University of Kentucky College of Medicine PhD Research: The role of APOE E4 allele in altered metabolic pathways contributing to late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Hometown: Lexington, Kentucky Favorite Spot in Nashville: Yazoo Brewery, lots of room for kids to run around. Fun Fact: Dr. Farmer sang bass in...
ADI Highlights
Jan. 31, 2024—Vanderbilt will celebrate Black History Month during February with events aimed to acknowledge and appreciate the accomplishments of Black people on campus, across the country and around the globe. Please see this list compiled by the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center (BCC) on campus. The event line-up is updating daily so check the BCC’s page throughout the...
ADI Highlights
Dec. 18, 2023—Candace Grisham (G3) and Dr. Megan Williams (MSTP Assistant Director) presented a poster on the ADI Council’s Longitudinal Curriculum in Health and Research Equity for the MSTP including information on the a new summer course called Foundations in Health and Research Equity for MSTP students at the Vanderbilt Health Professions Education Research Day.
ADI Highlights
Nov. 29, 2023—MSTP ADI Media Club The MSTP ADI Council hosted a fall media club, “A Reflection on the Tennessee Three,” where students watched C-SPAN recordings of the expulsion hearings of representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson and had a moderated discussion about the events. Thank you to Matt Loberg (G4) for organizing!
Meet the new Edwards-Goodpasture PSTP Associate College Advisor: Nick Parrish, MD, PhD
Nov. 29, 2023—by Camella Carlson (G1) Dr. Nick Parrish is a general surgery chief resident at Vanderbilt and leader of a research team at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences in Yokohama, Japan. His clinical interests are in transplant surgery and his research seeks to understand the interactions between an organism’s genome and it’s viruses. He...
Vanderbilt Undergraduate-MSTP Mentorship Program
Feb. 27, 2023—by Hailey Kresge (G1) I participated in Vanderbilt’s undergraduate/MSTP mentorship program as a Vanderbilt undergraduate back in 2016 and found that interactions with current MSTP students was one of the most helpful things in confirming my interest in pursuing a MD/PhD. Since joining the Vanderbilt MSTP in 2020, I wanted to re-start this program to...