About Collaborative Institutional Resources

• Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

  Purpose

  The Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance develops and supports collaborative initiatives. It has provided opportunities for collaboration between Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and for collaboration with projects in the community. The MVA focuses on research, interprofessional education, community engagement, and supports a student alliance.

  Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance Team

  Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD

  Executive Director
  Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

  615-320-9457
  karen.winkfield@Meharry-Vanderbilt.Org

  Virginia Fuqua-Meadows

  Administrative Director
  Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance

  615-963-2822
  virginia.fuqua@meharry-vanderbilt.org

  Visit the MVA Website

• The Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (TN-CFAR)

  Purpose

  The Tennessee Center for AIDS Research (TN-CFAR) leverages complementary strengths of its four partner institutions to have broad and substantial impact on the HIV epidemic. Through this four-way partnership between Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Meharry Medical College, the Tennessee Department of Health, and Nashville CARES, our vision is to have transformative, local and global translational impact. Guided by this vision, our mission is to coordinate the institutional and community strengths and resources of VUMC, MMC, TDH and CARES to most effectively reduce the burden of HIV/AIDS and generalize these benefits worldwide.

  Visit the TN-CFAR Website

• Meharry-Vanderbilt-TSU Cancer Partnership (MVTCP)

  Purpose

  Founded in 2000 by funding from the National Cancer Institute, Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center launched the MMC-VICC Cancer Partnership. The program expanded in 2006 to include Tennessee State University, creating the current Meharry-Vanderbilt-TSU Cancer Partnership. The program balances focus on population science, basic research, and clinical research to strengthen and expand cancer research.

  MVTCP Team

  Samuel Evans Adunyah, PhD

  Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology & Professor
  School of Medicine

  (615) 327-6446
  sadunyah@mmc.edu

  Harold L. Moses, MD

  Professor, Emeritus Director, Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center
  Vanderbilt University

  Hal.Moses@vanderbilt.edu

  Ann Richmond, PhD

  Professor of Cancer Biology, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Medicine
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  Ann.Richmond@Vanderbilt.edu

  Baqar A. Husaini, PhD

  Research Professor & Emeritus Director, Center for Prevention Research
  Tennessee State University

  bhusaini@tnstate.edu

  Margret Whalen, PhD

  Professor, Department of Chemistry
  Tennessee State University

  mwhalen@tnstate.edu

  Meggan Novotny, MA

  Program Coordinator
  Center for Prevention Research

  meggan@outlook.com

  Julie Schaum, MS

  Program Coordinator, Associate Director of Research Administration
  Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

  j.schaum@Vanderbilt.Edu

  Visit the MVTCP Website

• Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR)

  Purpose

  Since 2007, Meharry has been partner with the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), Vanderbilt’s virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Office of Research and the NIH sponsored Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. VICTR provides tools and support to improve the quality of research, publications, grant writing, and training for future doctors and researchers.

  VICTR Team

  Gordon Bernard, MD

  Executive Vice President For Research, Senior Associate Dean For Clinical Sciences, Melinda Owen Bass Professor Of Medicine
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  615-343-0077
  gordon.bernard@vumc.org

  Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI

  Vice President For Health Equity (VUMC), Associate Dean For Health Equity (Vanderbilt SOM), Executive Director (Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance), Engagement Core Director (All Of Us Research Program )
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  (615) 963-2824
  consuelo.h.wilkins.1@vumc.org

  Duane Smoot, MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF

  Meharry Sub-Contract PI
  School of Medicine

  dsmoot@mmc.edu

  Jill Pulley, MBA

  Research Associate Professor of Medicine
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center

  615-343-2842
  jill.pulley@vumc.org

  Visit the VICTR Website