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Biography

Vy Tran Plata, MD grew up in a small village in Vietnam and immigrated to a diverse community in Atlanta when she was 9. She has been gifted with many opportunities to reflect on power and privilege as a first-generation and low-income background person in higher education/medicine. She graduated from Stanford University in 2016 with a B.A. in Human Biology focusing on Creativity, Innovation, and Change, and in 2018 with an M.S. in Community Health and Prevention Research. From her time being part of various communities (be it in Vietnam, the U.S., Mexico, or India), she’s learned that well-being comes in many different forms. In a doctor's prescription, yes, but also in our inner strengths, in neighbors caring for one another, and in our resilience in making ends meet each day. Dr. Tran Plata sees these strengths as the untapped potential that she hopes to leverage as a future physician. She aspires to co-create community programs and policies helping patients overcome behavioral and systemic challenges in their environment. In addition, she is interested in transforming medical education to reflect the diverse backgrounds of learners and to infuse it with the humanistic values so fundamental to good care.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: primary care/HIV training, medical education, mentoring, community-based participatory research (CBPR), health equity and advocacy, palliative care, writing

HOBBIES: Pyrography, poetry, gratitude journal, yoga, meditation, hiking, biking, running, nature walks, feng shui, cooking, baking, cake decorating

Education & Training

MD
University of Michigan, Medical Humanities; Diagnostics and Therapeutics (2022)
MS
Stanford University, Community Health and Prevention Research (CHPR) (2018)
BA
Stanford University, Human Biology with Honors: Innovation, Creativity, and Change (2016)

Research

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles/Abstracts (Published)

Bishop, R., Tran Plata, V.T., & Jabour, S. 2021, Aug). Who will be the history writers of the COVID-19 pandemic?. Journal of General Internal Medicine. Pub Status: Published.

Poster Presentation

Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, September 17). Three decades in the making: What is the long-term impact of a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project on enhancing community capacity? [Poster presented]. Nexus Summit 2021: Working Together in the Nexus./Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, October 20). A case study on a community-based participatory research (CBPR) effort leading to a community health clinic in a Maya coastal town in rural México [Poster presented]. AAFP Global Health Summit/Leawood, KS, USA.

Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, October 21). Echo Healing Environment and Lives (Echo-HEAL): A Global Movement from a Community Health Perspective [Poster presented]. AAFP Global Health Summit/Leawood, KS, USA. Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, October 22). The Life, the Soul, and Caring for them both [Poster presented]. Patient-Based Scientific Inquiry, University of Michigan School of Medicine/Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, October 23). Teach, Empower, Advocate, and Mentor (TEAM), a medical education initiative focusing on racially, ethnically, and socially underrepresented minority (RES-URM) medical students [Poster presented]. American Medical Association (AMA) 2021 Research Challenge/Chicago, IL, USA.

Tran, V.T. (2016, October 20). “I’m over here, doc:" Assessing the effectiveness of an intervention on the Patient-Provider-Computer interaction [Poster presented]. Symposium for Undergraduate Research and Public Service /Stanford, MI, USA.

Tran, V.T., Vasquez, D., & Mahmoud, N. (2014, March 01). Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Home Immunization Standards in Community Health Centers [Poster presented]. Stanford School of Medicine Community Health Symposium/Stanford, CA, USA.

Oral Presentation

Chen, C., & Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, September 30). DiverseCity, an innovative way to scale access to world-class mentorship [Oral Presentation]. American Medical Association. Bright Ideas Showcase at ChangeMedEd® 2021 (Finalist presentations)/Chicago, IL, USA.

Tran Plata, V.T. (2021, October 21). From "High-potential teen in risk-filled environment" to "Medical doctor" — a journey of resilience and gratitude [Oral Presentation]. 2021 Michigan Pre-College and Youth Outreach Conference/Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Tran Plata, V.T., McKean, E., & O'Connor, C. (2022, January 27). Addressing barriers that racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically underrepresented minority (RES-URM) medical students face [Oral Presentation]. 2022 STFM Conference on Medical Student Education/San Antonio, TX, USA.

Tran, V.T. (2012, September 30). Rius and Las Historietas: Not a Laughing Matter–Comics as a Viable Media and Political Platform for Social Change [Oral Presentation]. Latinos Unidos Scholar/Stanford, CA, USA.

Tran, V.T. (2018, September 27). A gift to pay forward [Oral Presentation]. Honoring the Gift of Knowledge, University of Michigan Medical School Anatomical Donations Memorial Service/Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Tran, V.T. (2019, September 26). Hidden Anatomy Lessons [Oral Presentation]. Honoring the Gift of Knowledge, University of Michigan Medical School Anatomical Donations Memorial Service/Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Tran, V.T. (2020, April 30). Reflecting on COVID-19 pandemic: "Empty Hands" What will you hold or offer? [Oral Presentation].M-Home Medical Arts Program Artists’ Guild/Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Tran, V.T., Castillo-Burguete, T., Dickinson, F., Goldman Rosas, L., & García, G. (2018, April 24). ¿Cómo afecta el proceso de investigación participativa el bienestar y capacidad comunitaria? [Oral Presentation]. San Crisanto y Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Cinvestav-IPN) /San Crisanto/Merida (Yucatán), MEX.

Other Articles

Tran, V.T., & White, M. (2019, January 22). Keeping it real. Points of Blue Profiles. https://medicine.umich.edu/medschool/profiles/md/vy-tran-keeping-it-real
Pub Status: Published

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Academic Achievements and Community Involvement

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    Professional OrganizationsCenter to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
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    Professional OrganizationsAmerican College of Physicians
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    Professional OrganizationsGold Humanism Honor Society
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    Chen Hsing Hsu, MD Humanism Award

    Hospital System AwardUniversity of Michigan
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    ChangeMedEd DEI Bright Ideas Showcase Winner

    National AwardAmerican Medical Association (AMA)
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