Program for LGBTI Health makes Med Center more inclusive through Trans Buddy program, research and education.

This year's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day speaker for the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine is Dr. Rita K. Adeniran, President and CEO of Innovative and Inclusive Global Solutions.

The needs and nuances of providing health care to members of the LGBT community is the focus of a new course jointly offered by the Vanderbilt Schools of Nursing and Medicine.

The Fourteenth Annual Levi Watkins, Jr., MD Lecture with featured speaker, Woodrow A. Myers, Jr., MD will be held on October 13, 2015. This will be the first lecture in the series since the untimely passing of Dr. Watkins.  

Nominations are currently being sought for the Levi Watkins Jr. Faculty Award and the Levi Watkins Jr. Student Award.

Tina Smith tapped to head Office of Inclusion Initiatives and Cultural Competence at VU. In light of the university’s strategic commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive campus community, students and university leaders are having more conversations about how to ensure a campus environment that embraces and respects all forms of racial, cultural, gender and religious identity or expression and sexual orientation.

Three new chairs promoting diversity and inclusion mark the start of a significant new effort at Vanderbilt University, said Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos during his bi-annual address to the Faculty Assembly. “If Vanderbilt does not address issues of diversity, inclusion and culture, and [instead] acts like everything is just fine, it will fail as an institution,” Zeppos told a standing-room-only crowd of faculty in the Student Life Center on Aug. 27.

From April 13 to May 22, 2015, the Eskind Biomedical Library is proud to host "Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons," a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine. This exhibit celebrates the history of black surgeons and black medical institutions, as well as current and future trailblazers in the field.

Levi Watkins Jr., M.D., renowned cardiac surgeon, champion of racial equality and diversity, and the first African-American to be admitted to and graduate from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), died Saturday from complications after suffering a stroke. He was 70.

Gary Gibbons, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), will deliver a special cardiology grand rounds on Wednesday, Feb. 25. His lecture, entitled “Charting Our Future Together: Setting an Agenda for the NHLBI,” begins at noon in 208 Light Hall. Boxed lunches will be served.