MVA Team

MVA Team

Virginia Fuqua-Meadows

Administrative Director

Phone

(615) 963-2822

virginia.fuqua@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Trina Taglialavore

Executive Assistant

Phone

(615) 963-2825

trina.m.taglialavore@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Jessica Jones, MS

Program Manager

(615) 963-2832

j.jones@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Christopher Smith, MS

Community Engagement Coordinator

(615) 963-2960

ca.smith@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Mercedes Ridinger, MPH

Associate Program Manager

(615) 963-2823

mercedes.ridinger@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Thomas Brady Ruffin, MPS

Program Manager

Phone

(615) 963-2826

tbrady.ruffin@meharry-vanderbilt.org

Research Team

Alecia Fair, DrPH

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

(615) 963-2854

alecia.fair@vumc.org
Freneka Minter, PhD

Sr. Community Research Program Manager

(615) 963-2856

freneka.f.minter@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Meredith Smalls, MPH

Clinical Research Coordinator II

(615) 963-2861

meredith.smalls@meharry-vanderbilt.org
Shantal Salandy, MD

Florence Diversity Intern

shantalsalandy@gmail.com