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NASHVILLE, Tenn. On Wednesday, March 2, the Department of Internal Medicine will present Medical Grand Rounds, with Jason B. Martin, M.D. as the featured speaker. Martin, an Assistant Professor in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine with the Department of Internal Medicine, will discuss “Sedation and Analgesia in Critically Ill Patients: An Update and Review." The lecture will be held at the S.S. Kresge Learning Resource Center in Lecture Hall 1 from 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Objectives include:

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Kennard D. Brown, JD, MPA, PhD, FACHE will speak Wednesday, March 2, at the RWJF National Scholars' Current Issues Lecture Series on "Diversity in the Healthcare Arena." The lecture is schedule from noon until 1 p.m. at Meharry Medical College's Cal Turner Family Center for Student Education, in the ballroom. It is free and open to the public.
 
 Brown is Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operations Officer of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.


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 Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD speaks at a Community Partners Roundtable Breakfast meeting held at the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. 


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 Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD speaks at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Federal officials with the White House and National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will lead the Direct Volunteers Pilot Studies under the first grant to be awarded in the federal Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program.


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 Lechaun Clayton, MHS is pictured with the Emswiller People’s Choice Award – Certificate of Excellence.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Executive Director Dr. Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI recently appeared on NBC15 News in Madison, Wis., to promote community-based efforts to address Alzheimer's Disease in the African-American community. "African Americans are two to three times more likely than whites to have Alzheimer's Disease, and often they are diagnosed later," she said. The full interview is below:    


 
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 HNLC Co-Chair and MVA Director of Planning and Community Engagement Elisa Friedman, MS (left) and HNLC Chair Freida Outlaw address members of the Nashville Metro Council.