Fall 2025 Class Notes

Alumni Profile: Randal Hundley, MD’79 

Cardiologist with a heart for music

Core commitments remain consistent

How zebrafish — and many hands — solve the ‘jigsaw puzzles’ of human disease 

Ela Knapik, MD, professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has devoted her career to collaborating with others to solve the “jigsaw puzzles” of disease. Her lab is known internationally for its use of modern genome-editing techniques in a powerful animal model — zebrafish.

Fall 2025 Faces and Places

In My Life: Lealani Mae Acosta, MD