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NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Matthew Walker Comprehensive Health Center has scheduled a series of free Diabetes Group Sessions beginning Aug. 27 and ending Dec. 10. Each session begins at 10 a.m. and last two hours. A complete schedule, including dates and locations, is below:    

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Neely Williams, Co-Principle Investigator (Co-PI) with Group Health Research Institute in partnership with the Mid-South CDRN, has been approved for a three-year $4.5 million funding award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study obesity. The study aims to produce results faster and more efficiently by using PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Meharry Amphitheater (21st Avenue between Albion and Meharry Boulevard), the Delta Chapter Omegas and the Meharry Chapter of the NAACP will present the #WeBelieve Campaign & Rally. Organizers are asking all Meharrians, Vanderbilt University Medical Center staff and students to participate in the effort to fight for African American achievement by starting in the minds of black youth.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.  Vanderbilt is holding a one-day event called “Supporting Team Science at Vanderbilt” on Friday, Sept. 25. Its purpose is to bring together folks across the research enterprise to identify and address the ways that we can administratively promote and support interdisciplinary team science.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance intern Ryan Berr's submission “Assessing the impact of Health Literacy, Numeracy and Race on Willingness to Participate in Biomedical Research” was recently accepted for an oral presentation at the 2015 Health Literacy Research Conference by the HARC abstract review committee.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Friday, July 31, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance presented the sixth and final in its series of educational sessions on the fundamentals of grantsmanship, scientific manuscript writing and research methodology. The latest session was called "Biostatistics Fundamentals (Part 2)." Click here to download the complete presentation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Ivy Zalaya, a student at Meharry Medical College, was recently announced as one of the 2015 Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Clinical Research Mentorship grant recipients. She is the first Meharry student to receive the grant.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core invites proposals for mutually beneficial, health-oriented research partnerships between community organizations and academic researchers.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Friday, July 24, the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance presented the fifth in its series of educational sessions on the fundamentals of grantsmanship, scientific manuscript writing and research methodology. The latest session was called "Biostatistics Fundamentals (Part 1)." Click here to download the complete presentation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance hosted a symposium for the Summer Program for Integrative Science and Cancer Research Friday morning. Several mentors attended, presenting their findings from various research projects.