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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 April 30, 2026

Spring 2026 Faces and Places

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Two smiling adults pose closely together indoors; the woman has eyeglasses resting on her head, and both wear black collared shirts.
Portrait of Brenessa Lindeman, MD’09, MEHP, smiling against a gray background and wearing a black dress.
Runners wearing numbered bibs jog across a grassy park beneath trees, with a cone marking the course.
Smiling couple pose with their sleeping baby in front of a decorated, illuminated Christmas tree.
Two people pose at a Vanderbilt School of Medicine backdrop. The person on the left wears a white coat costume and sunglasses while holding a “WHITE COAT FUND” sign; the person on the right holds a Vanderbilt-themed photo frame over their face. Both make peace signs.
A group of 11 adults poses outside the Buffalo Trace Distillery, standing in front of a brick building with a large “BUFFALO TRACE” sign, a “DISTILLERY” sign, and whiskey barrels.
Five conference attendees pose in a restaurant while holding a sign reading “WELCOME MEDICAL PHYSICS LUNCHEON AAPM 2025” and “VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.”
A suited man speaks to an audience seated in a lecture hall, with two leather armchairs and a side table behind him.
Group portrait of approximately 18 VMAA Board members standing together on an outdoor terrace, with office buildings in the background.
Speaker in a dark pinstriped suit gestures while addressing an audience in a lecture hall lined with framed portraits.
Three adults pose for a photo at a restaurant table, with two women in front and a man standing behind them; other diners and framed artwork are visible in the warmly lit dining room.
A suited speaker stands in a lecture hall beside two leather armchairs and a gift bag, while a projected slide shows historic medical education buildings and a timeline of Nashville medical schools.

Capt. Varun Menon, MD’20, and Sarah Woodall, senior director of the VMAA, enjoyed the VUSM Breakfast Tailgate ahead of Vanderbilt’s win over Auburn.

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