Vanderbilt University Medical Center Internal Medicine

Residency · Nashville, TN

Sponsored by Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Director Megan Dupuis

Megan Dupuis, MD, PhD
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical education and medical humanities (co-director of the Medical Humanities GME certificate program)
Alyssa Steitz, MD, MEd
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Christopher Terndrup, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Healthcare for LGBTQ+ and LatinX populations, developed during training; helped develop the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellowship and clinic at Vanderbilt, Health systems science and LGBTQ+ care (his educational footprints at OHSU), Teaching medical trainees in clinical care
Deepak Gupta, MD, MSCI
Associate Program Director · Papers with 3 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Natriuretic peptide system and sodium: differential susceptibility to cardiometabolic disease and heart failure, Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; dedicated HFpEF clinic, Cardiometabolic disease and its sequelae; clinical research program that mentors trainees toward physician-scientist careers, Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging (Vanderbilt Heart Imaging Core Lab; BWH imaging fellowship)
Elizabeth Ann Yakes, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical education: The Learning Communities, a four-year longitudinal professional development course for medical students, Physician burnout, well-being and empowerment; faculty director of the VWell support team, Resident remediation and coaching; Intern Ambulatory Clinic Didactics and quarterly Morbidity, Mortality and Improvement Conference, Medical education research: impact of curricula and wellness promotion for students and faculty
Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI
Associate Program Director · Papers with 2 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vice Chair for Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Pulmonary vascular disease and right heart failure: metabolic disease, phenotyping, and wearable devices to promote physical activity, Director, Physician-Scientist Training Program (Tinsley Randolph Harrison Society), Internal Medicine Residency
Jacob Hathaway, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Implementation science, quality improvement and public health, Outpatient primary care for veterans, including transgender patients, patients at risk for homelessness and high utilizers of inpatient and emergency care, Quality improvement curricula for residents, clinicians and students
Jill Gilbert, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vice Chair for Professional Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Faculty professional development across careers in the Department of Medicine, including the Schaffner, Neilson and Miller faculty societies, Clinical focus: head and neck cancer, endocrine cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer and unknown primary cancer, Medical education: curriculum and assessment of trainees, including national and international faculty development through ASCO
Jp Arroyo, MD, PhD
Associate Program Director
Internist, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kaele Leonard, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Interventional pulmonary: factors in successful bronchoscopy, predictors of malignancy and diagnostic yield in bronchoscopy, Conflict-of-interest reporting in bronchoscopy literature
L. Nicholas Herrera, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Clinical interest in management of orthopedic infections, Leads the Division of Infectious Diseases' travel and tropical or geographic medicine efforts; holds the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) printed after his name, Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton and Bedford hospitals, and Associate Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Vanderbilt University Hospital, Educator in the School of Medicine, the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Merranda Holmes, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Serving vulnerable and medically complex patient populations, Adverse childhood experiences and their effect on mental health, hospital readmissions and chronic disease over a lifetime, Teaching Kenyan medical residents at a teaching hospital in Chogoria, Kenya
Neeraja Peterson, MD, MSc
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Chair, Ambulatory Education; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Cancer prevention and control, Ambulatory care quality improvement, Ambulatory education, including resident continuity clinics, Mentoring junior faculty; helps lead the Women in Medicine Initiative for the Department of Medicine
Walter Clair, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director · Papers with 2 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Culture, diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine and cardiology (Vice Chair for Culture and Community; several DEI editorials), Patient and caregiver education in arrhythmia care, including the Arrest the Risk campaign, Social determinants and disparities in sudden cardiac death and cardiovascular risk
Anna Burgner, MD
Associate Director, EXCITE Pathway
Associate Director, EXCITE Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nephrology medical education, curriculum development and fellowship education, Clinical trials in nephrology regenerative medicine, diabetic nephropathy and hypertension in chronic kidney disease
Derek Pae, MD
Director, EXCITE Pathway
Director, EXCITE Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Health policy, Quality improvement, Clinical decision making
Tom A. Elasy, MD, MPH
Director, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health
Zeynep Kubilay, MD
Associate Program Director of the Global Health Pathway
Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jacob Lee, MD
VA Inpatient Chief Resident
VA Inpatient Chief Resident (2026 to 2027), Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Basic science and clinical research, Medical education and teaching
Madison Bandler, MD
VUMC Inpatient Chief Resident
Inpatient Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bioethics, and the factors that affect health care access and outcomes, Strong interest in rheumatology, open to all subspecialties, A career as a clinician educator; in medical school at SIU she was highly engaged with the medical education department
Rachel Gorham, MD, MS
VUMC Outpatient Chief Resident
Outpatient Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Oncology research on patient-centered outcome measures, from her master's work at Dell, Loves poetry and aspires to become a physician-writer
Seth Cooper, MD
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine chief resident, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tori Taglialavore
Program Manager, Physician-Scientist Training Program
Program Manager at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Aaron Smith, MD
Physician
Critical care medicine physician at Exceed Healthcare

Megan Dupuis, MD, PhD
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical education and medical humanities (co-director of the Medical Humanities GME certificate program)
Alyssa Steitz, MD, MEd
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Christopher Terndrup, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Healthcare for LGBTQ+ and LatinX populations, developed during training; helped develop the LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellowship and clinic at Vanderbilt, Health systems science and LGBTQ+ care (his educational footprints at OHSU), Teaching medical trainees in clinical care
Deepak Gupta, MD, MSCI
Associate Program Director · Papers with 3 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Natriuretic peptide system and sodium: differential susceptibility to cardiometabolic disease and heart failure, Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction; dedicated HFpEF clinic, Cardiometabolic disease and its sequelae; clinical research program that mentors trainees toward physician-scientist careers, Non-invasive cardiovascular imaging (Vanderbilt Heart Imaging Core Lab; BWH imaging fellowship)
Elizabeth Ann Yakes, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Medical education: The Learning Communities, a four-year longitudinal professional development course for medical students, Physician burnout, well-being and empowerment; faculty director of the VWell support team, Resident remediation and coaching; Intern Ambulatory Clinic Didactics and quarterly Morbidity, Mortality and Improvement Conference, Medical education research: impact of curricula and wellness promotion for students and faculty
Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI
Associate Program Director · Papers with 2 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vice Chair for Research, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Pulmonary vascular disease and right heart failure: metabolic disease, phenotyping, and wearable devices to promote physical activity, Director, Physician-Scientist Training Program (Tinsley Randolph Harrison Society), Internal Medicine Residency
Jacob Hathaway, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Implementation science, quality improvement and public health, Outpatient primary care for veterans, including transgender patients, patients at risk for homelessness and high utilizers of inpatient and emergency care, Quality improvement curricula for residents, clinicians and students
Jill Gilbert, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vice Chair for Professional Development, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Faculty professional development across careers in the Department of Medicine, including the Schaffner, Neilson and Miller faculty societies, Clinical focus: head and neck cancer, endocrine cancer, non-melanoma skin cancer and unknown primary cancer, Medical education: curriculum and assessment of trainees, including national and international faculty development through ASCO
Jp Arroyo, MD, PhD
Associate Program Director
Internist, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kaele Leonard, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Interventional pulmonary: factors in successful bronchoscopy, predictors of malignancy and diagnostic yield in bronchoscopy, Conflict-of-interest reporting in bronchoscopy literature
L. Nicholas Herrera, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Clinical interest in management of orthopedic infections, Leads the Division of Infectious Diseases' travel and tropical or geographic medicine efforts; holds the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTM&H) printed after his name, Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton and Bedford hospitals, and Associate Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship at Vanderbilt University Hospital, Educator in the School of Medicine, the Internal Medicine Residency Program, and the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
Merranda Holmes, MD
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Serving vulnerable and medically complex patient populations, Adverse childhood experiences and their effect on mental health, hospital readmissions and chronic disease over a lifetime, Teaching Kenyan medical residents at a teaching hospital in Chogoria, Kenya
Neeraja Peterson, MD, MSc
Associate Program Director
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Chair, Ambulatory Education; Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Cancer prevention and control, Ambulatory care quality improvement, Ambulatory education, including resident continuity clinics, Mentoring junior faculty; helps lead the Women in Medicine Initiative for the Department of Medicine
Walter Clair, MD, MPH
Associate Program Director · Papers with 2 residents since 2023
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency; Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Culture, diversity, equity and inclusion in medicine and cardiology (Vice Chair for Culture and Community; several DEI editorials), Patient and caregiver education in arrhythmia care, including the Arrest the Risk campaign, Social determinants and disparities in sudden cardiac death and cardiovascular risk
Anna Burgner, MD
Associate Director, EXCITE Pathway
Associate Director, EXCITE Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nephrology medical education, curriculum development and fellowship education, Clinical trials in nephrology regenerative medicine, diabetic nephropathy and hypertension in chronic kidney disease
Derek Pae, MD
Director, EXCITE Pathway
Director, EXCITE Pathway, Internal Medicine Residency; Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Health policy, Quality improvement, Clinical decision making
Tom A. Elasy, MD, MPH
Director, Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health
Zeynep Kubilay, MD
Associate Program Director of the Global Health Pathway
Hospitalist, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Jacob Lee, MD
VA Inpatient Chief Resident
VA Inpatient Chief Resident (2026 to 2027), Internal Medicine Residency, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Basic science and clinical research, Medical education and teaching
Madison Bandler, MD
VUMC Inpatient Chief Resident
Inpatient Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bioethics, and the factors that affect health care access and outcomes, Strong interest in rheumatology, open to all subspecialties, A career as a clinician educator; in medical school at SIU she was highly engaged with the medical education department
Rachel Gorham, MD, MS
VUMC Outpatient Chief Resident
Outpatient Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Oncology research on patient-centered outcome measures, from her master's work at Dell, Loves poetry and aspires to become a physician-writer
Seth Cooper, MD
Chief Resident, Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine chief resident, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tori Taglialavore
Program Manager, Physician-Scientist Training Program
Program Manager at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Aaron Smith, MD
Physician
Critical care medicine physician at Exceed Healthcare