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Grantee in the News: Consuelo Wilkins Receives Multi-Million NIH Grant

Consuelo H. Wilkins, M.D., MSCI of Vanderbilt University Medical Center

2006 Beeson Scholar Consuelo H. Wilkins, M.D., MSCI, has been named Executive Director of the new Vanderbilt-Miami-Meharry Center of Excellence in Precision Medicine and Population Health. The center will be funded through the award of a five-year, $11.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Led by Dr. Wilkins, the new center will enable research using precision medicine to eradicate health disparities, particularly those among African Americans and Latinos. “For precision medicine to reach its full potential, we must develop new ways to integrate social, cultural, environmental and biological data to accurately identify strategies to prevent and treat disease among all populations, especially those with disproportionately poor health outcomes, ” Dr. Wilkins notes.More information on the center can be found here.

Consuelo H. Wilkins, M.D., MSCI is the Executive Director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College.

The Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging initiative aims to develop of a cadre of talented scientists prepared and willing to take an active leadership role in transformative change that will lead to improved health care outcomes. Learn more here.

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