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Featured Story Aerial view of the VUMC campus circa 1938, showing a group of interconnected multi-story institutional buildings surrounded by trees and roads.
Mission of Caring

A Legacy of Shaping Tomorrow’s Leaders
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Faces and Places October 5, 2020

Faces and Places

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By: Kathy Whitney
A group of people gathers outdoors in front of a yellow building. Two seated visitors wear colorful patterned clothing and leafy garlands, surrounded by community members, including one person holding up a smartphone.
Portrait of a woman wearing glasses and a stethoscope, holding the stethoscope’s chest piece toward the camera against a blue paneled background.
A smiling couple pose with their laughing young daughter in a home interior. The man wears a plaid shirt, and the woman wears glasses and a patterned dress.
Smiling woman in a black top cradles a newborn baby wearing a delicate headband against a light wood-paneled background.
Family portrait of two adults and two young girls, with the man holding a sleeping newborn wrapped in a white blanket.
Young girl with pigtails and a bright pink outfit smiles while leaning on a wooden fence outdoors.
Bride in a white dress and floral crown walks arm-in-arm with groom in a navy suit through the wooden pews of a church; she carries a white-and-green bouquet.
Smiling woman standing on a leafy porch and holding a red-and-orange University of Virginia–themed cloth face mask.
Newborn baby nestled in a fluffy cream-colored blanket, eyes closed and mouth slightly open.
Seven women pose together indoors in front of a wall covered with gray abstract markings; one wears a tan trench coat, one a red dress, and one a light gray sweater.

Lyle Wadsworth, MD’75, HS’75, (front row, right) recently completed mission work in Ghana.

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