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The Student Advisory Board (SAB) consists of six students. It meets regularly with MHS faculty to discuss the MHS curriculum, programming, and extra-curricular opportunities. SAB members serve, as well, as a student-centered resource for MHS majors. You’ll find SABs at New Major Information Sessions and undergraduate “Major Fairs”; SABs propose faculty-student discussion groups on topics of interest to MHS studies; and they network with other student groups on campus whose work focuses on medicine in its social context.
This is a GREAT opportunity to work closely with a number of MHS professors and to explore the many different dimensions of the MHS major.
2009-2010 BOARD MEMBERS
DAVID AMSALEM, Senior, Arts & Science
Ask me about: Classes, public health, narrative medicine, medical anthropology, palliative care, volunteering around nashville, volunteering abroad, health disparities, starting a 501(c)3, anything related to EMS, Wilderness medicine, traveling, turning your learning into action, petitioning.
MHS courses taken: ANTH 240 Medical Anthropology; ANTH 250 Shamanism and Spirit Curing; BSCI 110A & B Intro Biological Sciences; CHEM 101A Introductory Chemistry; CHEM 102A & B, General Chem Lecture; CHEM 104A & B General Chem Lab; GEOL 115 Science, Voodoo and Democracy; HIST 204 History of Medicine 1750-Present ; HOD 2510 Health Service Delivery to Diverse Populations; MHS 201 Fundamental Issues; MHS 202 Perspectives in Public Health; MHS 220 Narrative Medicine; MHS 225 Death and Dying in America; MHS 290 Health and Society in East Africa; MHS 290 Responsible Caring for Vulnerable Populations ; MHS 294 Service Learning; MHS 296 Independent Study; PHIL 105 Introduction to Ethics; SPAN 211 Spanish for the Medical Profession; PSCI 101 Intro Comparative Politics; SOC 268 Race, Gender and Health.
Future Plans: Medical School, MPH, international work
Email: David.a.Amsalem@vanderbilt.edu
MARY COLEMAN, Senior, Arts & Science / School of Nursing
Ask Me About: Classes to take; Navigating credit requirements/summer course work; Nursing (Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice Nursing); 5-year master's programs; Study Abroad (South America); Volunteer Opportunities; Community Health Initiatives- (Center for Health Services)
MHS courses taken: MHS 201-Fundamental Issues; MHS 220, Narrative Medicine; MHS 290, Community Health Research; MHS 290, Early Modern Medicine and Culture; MHS 295, Medicine, Religion, & Spirituality; PSY 268, Health Psychology; HIST 204, History of Medicine; HOD 2510, Health Service Delivery to Diverse Populations; NURS 210, A/B- Human Anatomy/Physiology; ANTH 250, Anthropology of Healing
MHS-related activities: Vanderbilt Center for Health Services advisory board (Community Health projects in Nashville); Vandy Children's Hospital Volunteer; Hearts in Motion (health service organization working Guatemala and Honduras); AMIGOS volunteering
MHS courses taken: MHS 201-Fundamental Issues; MHS 220, Narrative Medicine; MHS 290, Community Health Research; MHS 290, Early Modern Medicine and Culture; MHS 295, Medicine, Religion, & Spirituality; PSY 268, Health Psychology; HIST 204, History of Medicine; HOD 2510, Health Service Delivery to Diverse Populations; NURS 210, A/B- Human Anatomy/Physiology; ANTH 250, Anthropology of Healing
Future Plans: Vanderbilt School of Nursing- 5-year Master's Program: Family Nurse Practitioner; Community Health Work, Travel...
Email: mary.k.coleman@vanderbilt.edu
CARLTON LEWIS ("CJ") OWENS
Ask me about: classes/professors, non-clinical healthcare interests, student-run health organizations, volunteering around nashville
MHS courses taken: MHS 201 Fundamental Issues in Medicine, Health, and Society, MHS 203 US Public Health Ethics & Policy, MHS 290 SpTp: Medicine, Law, and Society, HOD 2510 Health Service Delivery to Diverse Populations, HIST 280 Modern Medicine, HIST 184 Sex and Gender in the Western Tradition, NURS 231A Intro to Nutrition, ANTH 240 Medical Anthropology, SOC 223 Disability & Society, SOC 264 Social Dynamics of Mental Health, PSY 231 Social Psychology
Future Plans: healthcare administration/management, healthcare consulting, healthcare finance, MBA
Email: carlton.l.owens@vanderbilt.edu
CALLIE WADE, Junior, Arts & Science
Ask me about: Double majoring, Health in Guatemala, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, ASB, study abroad in South America, Volunteering abroad, Spanish, Volunteering in Nashville,
MHS courses taken: Special Topics: Caring for Vulnerable Populations, Health Psychology, History of Medicine, Human Biology, Medicine, Health and the Body
MHS-related activities: Inter-American Health Alliance
Future Plans: Masters in Global Public Health
Email: caroline.p.wade@vanderbilt.edu
CHRISTINA BREANA WALTON, Junior, Arts & Science
Ask me about: Courses I have taken previously, African Student Union, Black Student Alliance, ConnectDore, MHS SAB, Voices of Praise, Residential Education (currently an RA in Dyer Hall)
MHS courses taken: BSCI 110a (Intro to BioSci); HOD 2510 01 (Health Service Delivery to Diverse Populations); HOD 2690 06 (Cultural Competencies & Awareness Related to Native American Communities); MHS 201 (Fundamental Issues in Medicine, Health, & Society); MHS 205 (Literature & Medicine); MHS 290 (Ethics & Public Health); MHS 290 (Medicine, Law, & Society); NURS 231B 01 (Nutrition & Health); PPSY 1630 (Developmental Psychology); PPSY 2250 (Infancy)
MHS-related activities: MAPS, Commit to Be Fit Team Leader, Former Big Sister in Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle TN, Former Volunteer for Project Cure, Black Student Alliance Community Service Committee
Future Plans: Attend a Post Baccalaureate Premedical Program or receive a Masters degree in MHS, Health Administration, or Public Health, and then attend medical school.
Email: christina.b.walton@vanderbilt.edu
AKHILA KASHINATH YADALAM
Ask me about:Volunteering in India, VSVS, VCSMHS courses taken: Social History of American Medicine (HIST 115F), Health Psychology (PSY 268), Developmental Psychology (PSY 1630), Minds, Brains, Context, and Culture (PSY 1200), Social and Personality Development (PSY 1750), Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 256), Gender, Sexuality, and the Body (SOC 257)
MHS-related activities: Working at a psychiatric research clinic, volunteering at a school for underprivileged (slum) children in India
Future Plans: MPH, genetics research
Email: akhila.k.yadalam@vanderbilt.edu
FORMER STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
2008-09 Student Advisory Board
Stacy Clark, Class of 2009
Elizabeth Claydon, Class of 2009
Kelley Coffman, Class of 2009
Karen Crow, Class of 2009
Erin Etzel, Class of 2009
Angela Moore, Class of 2009
2007-08 Student Advisory Board
Karen Crow, Class of 2009
Fatmata Daramy, Class of 2008
Sarah Deery, Class of 2008
Erin Etzel, Class of 2009
Lindsey Franks, Class of 2008
Daniel Israel, Class of 2008
2006-07 Student Advisory Board (Founding Members)
Adam Carlisle, Class of 2007
Lindsey Franks, Class of 2008
Charissa Megan Galloway, Class of 2007
Daniel Israel, Class of 2008
Disha Kumar, Class of 2007
Anju Mammen, Class of 2007