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Keith Churchwell, M.D., executive director and chief medical officer of the Vanderbilt Heart & Vascular Institute, center, receives the Jericho Award from Tennessee State University on April 13. The Jericho Project is an initiative at TSU to inspire students in the College of Arts and Sciences to pursue careers in languages, literature, and philosophy (medical ethics). Here, Churchwell is flanked by his wife, Leslie Douglas-Churchwell, M.D., and William Hardy, Ph.D., associate professor of Philosophy and Religion at TSU and coordinator of the Jericho Project.