Daniel was born and raised in Colombia, where he completed his medical training. Driven by a passion for improving patient safety, he moved to the United States to pursue his dream of becoming an academic clinician, researcher and medical educator. He earned an MPH in Clinical Effectiveness from Harvard and spent two years as a research fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital. There, he developed an educational curriculum to address diagnostic uncertainty and collaborated on a project estimating the prevalence of diagnostic errors in acute settings. Daniel then moved to Nashville to complete his Internal Medicine Residency, where he further developed his strong passion for medical education and clinical reasoning. He implemented a diagnostic time-out tool among house staff to address diagnostic uncertainty and optimize clinical reasoning in high-risk scenarios, sponsored by a research grant from the Society of Hospital Medicine. As a chief resident, Daniel is dedicated to teaching clinical reasoning to medical students and house staff. He is also working on creating a curriculum that integrates diagnostic and management reasoning. After his chief year, Daniel plans to pursue a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Although Colombia will always be his home, Nashville has become a second home for Daniel. He is grateful for his Latinx, CrossFit, and VUMC friends who have become his family in Nashville. In his free time, he enjoys working out, salsa dancing, scuba diving, wine tasting, psychotherapy sessions, starry skies, sentimental poems, and meal prepping on Sundays. Daniel is excited to advocate for, support, and coach fellow residents as a chief, aiming to help them become excellent internists while he continues to learn more about medical education and maintaining harmony and balance at the VA.
MD - Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2019
MPH - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2020
MPH - Clinical Effectiveness - Harvard University, 2020
Residency - Internal Medicine - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2024
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307