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MVA Takes Steps Toward Health

 

All students, faculty and staff are invited to join the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 12 noon as they promote physical activity in the workplace with their inaugural “Don’t Sit, Get Fit” Walking Wednesdays on the Meharry campus. Participants will have the opportunity to utilize optional weight and blood pressure check-ins between 7 and 9 a.m. and again from 11:30 a.m. to 12 noon at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Office, Biomedical Building on Meharry Blvd. just before the walk begins. Another “Know Your Numbers” session will be held halfway through the eight-week program. A small, healthy breakfast will be provided during the morning “Know Your Numbers” session. T-shirts, pedometers and water will be available for pre-registered walkers. Participants can register at mvagetfit@gmail.com with their preferred shirt size as well as their department and contact information. Unregistered guests are also welcome and shirts and pedometers will be provided based on availability. Walkers can choose from three routes, ranging in distance each week, and set individual walking goals. Questions can be directed to the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance office at 963-2820 or by email to the aforementioned address.

MVSA health fair reaches out to Buena Vista

Friends and local neighborhood residents fought successfully against discouraging weather conditions Saturday April 21st at the 15th Ave. Church of Christ for the second annual Meharry-Vanderbilt Student Alliance-sponsored Buena Vista Community Health Fair.

“A lot of work went into today,” said Blake Wilson, a third-year Meharry medical student who helped develop the fair and its activities. “It really gives the community a chance to come out and get to know each other, because it’s not only a health fair; it’s also a community day. It gives the community the opportunity to have various health screenings done that they might not normally have.”

The day’s activities began at 11 a.m. Visitors rotated through information and service stations where they had their blood pressure and blood glucose (sugar) levels checked and received dental and eye exams and bone density screenings. Private HIV testing was also provided.  MORE

 

Wilkins named to direct Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

3/15/2012 - Consuelo H. Wilkins, M.D., associate professor of Medicine, Psychiatry and Surgery at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the new executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. She will assume the role on June 1.

Wilkins, who succeeds the retiring Clifton Meador, M.D., proved to have exactly what the Alliance was looking for in its next leader – experience and demonstrated success in community engaged research.

As the Alliance welcomes a new leader, it will also usher in the next phase of the nearly 13-year-old partnership. With educational functions and clinical collaborations well established, the flourishing research engine of the Alliance will take center stage.

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Mini Grants to Promote Academic-Community Research Partnerships

The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core invites proposals for activities promoting on-going, mutually beneficial research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers. These grants are intended to build the capacity of community organizations to engage in research while at the same time build the capacity of academic researchers to work with community organizations. See attached mini grant guidelines and mini grant application.

Due Date: Proposals accepted 4 times per year – Nov. 1, Feb. 1, May 2, and Aug. 1.