TEDx Nashville Ticket Winners
Rebecca Helton, MA
Congratulations to the winners of our TEDx Nashville ticket giveaway! Check out their and others' favorite TED talks here.
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Finding Signals in the Noise: Todd Edwards
Rebecca Helton, MA
Discovering meaning in a massive amount of random-seeming data is nothing new to Todd Edwards, PhD, a genetic epidemiologist. His career has made meaning out of many disparate parts, beginning …
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Putting It All Together: Kevin C. Ess
Rebecca Helton, MA
On a recent Monday, Kevin Ess found himself in the operating room helping guide a brain resection procedure for one of his patients with epilepsy. Earlier that day, he collected …
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It's All About Teamwork: William Wester
Rebecca Helton, MA
If you talk to Bill Wester about his work, the first thing you hear will be how much he values the teams on his two major grants. Due to the …
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Exercising Your Professional Brand at Conference Interviews
Rebecca Helton, MA
At Vanderbilt, we’ve been doing a lot with professional branding lately. What you wear, what you do, and how you speak, sit, and walk all say things about you …
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Mentorship, Pharmacogenetics, and the Power of Play: Richard Ho
Rebecca Helton, MA
Although he didn’t originally envision a career in pediatric oncology, Richard Ho fell in love with it during a rotation in his fourth year of medical school. The relationships …
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What Would You Do If You Could Do Anything? Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
Rebecca Helton, MA
“As scientists, we can be like kids playing in a sandbox,” says Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Division Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. “We’re building things, trying to understand how things …
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Marathon Running, Marathon Research: Dawn Newcomb
Rebecca Helton, MA
For Dawn Newcomb, PhD, writing a grant is like running a marathon. As a veteran of six marathons since she moved to Nashville in 2007, she should know. “You have to …
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The Five Stages of Grief: Saying Goodbye to the Old Biosketch
Rebecca Helton, MA
Confused about the NIH’s new biosketch format? Wondering how to present your work in the best light? Download slides from a presentation by Dr. Katherine Hartmann, Associate Dean for …
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Understanding Asthma: Kecia Carroll
Rebecca Helton, MA
As the most common chronic diseases of childhood, asthma and other allergic diseases represent a “substantial burden on children in terms of quality of life, missed school days, and impact …
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