Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, Senior Vice President and Senior Associate Dean for Community Health and Engagement at Vanderbilt Health and holder of the Mildred Thornton Stahlman Chair in Rural Health, has been named a 2026 recipient of the Duke Medical Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award in recognition of her visionary leadership and national impact in clinical and translational research. Wilkins completed her residency training in internal medicine at Duke University Medical Center and has built a career that has fundamentally reshaped how academic medicine partners with communities. A tenured Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational…
Author: Holly Fletcher
Clausyl (CJ) Plummer, MD, has been named medical director of Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, effective March 1. Plummer, who joined Vanderbilt Health in 2019, is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Plummer completed his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Texas Health in San Antonio, where he served as administrative chief resident, followed by a fellowship in brain injury medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. His clinical interests include traumatic brain injury and spasticity management. He has served as the brain injury medical director at Stallworth for over 5…
George C. Hill, PhD, professor emeritus of Medical Education and Administration and of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, died Feb. 3. He was 86. Dr. Hill recognized the need for representative medical staff and believed that transforming how medical education recruited students would make medicine more accessible and approachable for Americans from all walks of life. His storied career in biomedical research and medical education made him a perfect fit for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, which was at a transformative time in its history when he joined the faculty. Working with students was a hallmark of the career of George…