Vanneck-Bailey Scholars Program
Dr. Nathaniel Kratz, MD, named 2025-2026 Vanneck-Bailey Scholar
Please join the Virginia Apgar Academy of Medical Educators of the Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons as we congratulate Assistant Professor of Medicine Nathaniel Kratz as the 2025-2026 Vanneck-Bailey Scholar. The Vanneck-Bailey Award is given annually to support a VP&S faculty member to develop educational programs that will “ensure that VP&S students are among the finest physicians entering the profession, skilled in the knowledge and practice of medicine and modeling compassionate, humanistic care to all patients.” We recognize the generosity of CUIMC patients whose commitments have made this award possible.
With the support of the Vanneck-Bailey Scholar Award, Dr. Kratz proposes to “equip future CUIMC physicians with the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively identify and address substance use disorders. The proposal builds on Dr. Kratz’ prior work founding NYP’s TRANSiT (“Therapeutic Resources and Assistance in Navigation to Services while in Transition”) a substance use bridge clinic and graduate medical education teaching site focused on low-barrier access to treatment for substance use disorders across the community’s continuum of care.
Dr. Kratz is also the Social Determinants of Health Champion for NYP West Campus/CUMC and is the Medical Lead for Targeted Outreach in the NewYork-Presbyterian Division of Community and Population Health. Dr. Kratz is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (at CUIMC) at Columbia University and is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine.
We congratulate Dr. Kratz and thank the applicants and selection committee members for their help in advancing the mission of medical education research and scholarship at VP&S.
Previous Vanneck - Bailey Scholars
2024-2025: Taylor B. Sewell, MD, MBA
Proposal: To enhance the LGBTQ+ Curriculum at VP&S toward providing outstanding compassionate, and inclusive care to patients by integrating more training in LGBTQ+ health into the VP&S curriculum.
2023-2024: Delphine Taylor, MD
Proposal: To conduct a program evaluation of the current structure of the VP&S Coaching Program, create resources for students and faculty, integrate competency-based assessments into coaching, and launch a national survey to identify how medical schools are using coaching programs to support self-regulated and adaptive learners.
2022-2023: Alwyn Cohall, MD
Proposal: Creation of content, service-learning activities, and exposure to individuals with lived experience in the carceral system as means of building a curriculum responsive to recommendations set forth by the AAMC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies which broadly call for the expansion of learning opportunities addressing health care inequities arising from systemic racism and personal bias.
2021-2022: Jean Marie Alves-Bradford, MD
Proposal: A longitudinal Advocacy, Allyship and Upstander Skills Curriculum throughout four years of medical school
2020-2021: Dr. Devon Rupley, MD
Proposal: Ready for MCY: An Intensive Transitions Curriculum Facilitating Professional Identity Formation
2019-2020: Sidney Hankerson, MD
Proposal: Teaching Social Determinants of Health and Mental Health First Aid to Medical Students
2018: Anne Armstrong-Coben, MD
Proposal: An Advisory Dean Curriculum Spanning the Four Years at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: Helping students develop into compassionate, humanistic physicians
2017: Hetty Cunningham, MD
(inaugural scholar)
Proposal: Promoting reflective capacity in the VP&S portfolio to support professional identity formulation in a medical education landscape increasingly focused on competency achievement