Dr. Kimryn Rathmell is the Chair of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She is the Physician in Chief at Vanderbilt Hospital, the Hugh Jackson Morgan Chair in Medicine, the Deputy Director for Research Integration and Career Development, and Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. She received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Northern Iowa and her MD and PhD from Stanford University. She did her residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center, followed by a fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania. Today, Dr. Rathmell shares her journey to becoming Department Chair and each of the stops along the way and discusses the importance of a supportive infrastructure in the development of physician scientists.

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Our thanks to Dr. Rathmell for being on the podcast.

Check out her faculty page:

https://medicine.vumc.org/person/kimryn-rathmell-md-phd

Host: Bejan Saeedi

Co-Host and Audio Engineer – Joe Behnke

Executive Producer and Social Media Coordinator – Carey Jansen

Executive Producer – Michael Sayegh

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