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Cayla Long Student Services Coordinator

Cayla Long has joined the VCOM– Carolinas team as the new Student Services Coordinator. While studying at Wofford College, Cayla planned many philanthropy events. She then worked for a year at an optometrist office in Winston-Salem after graduating, gaining experience in the working world and improving her customer service skills. As Student

CAROLINAS CAMPUS

Jillian Bradley, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow in Microbiology and Immunology

Services Coordinator, she will draw on this experience as she helps to assist with events including orientation, white coat ceremony, and graduation as well as working with student leaders in organizing and tracking their organization funds and assisting in planning their events. When she is not taking pictures of her dog, Beau, she enjoys landscape photography, attends as many college football games as she can, and visits her family in Pawleys Island. She is excited to join the VCOM family and work with the students and faculty to make medical school more enjoyable.

Jillian Bradley, PhD, is originally from Augusta, Georgia. She has a PhD in Immunological Research and completed thesis work on stress- sensing mechanisms in macrophage polarization during helminth infection at Georgia Regents University. Jillian’s husband is a first year medical student at VCOM–Carolinas. They have been married for five years and

have a Jack Russell/Beagle mix named Bandit. Jillian’s hobbies include reading fantasy and sci-fi, cross-stitching, hiking and paint-by-number.

Risé Gravely Administrative Assistant to the Associate Dean of Biomedical Affairs and Research and Administrative Assistant to the Assistant Dean for Faculty Development

Colleen Cannon Admissions Coordinator

Risé Gravely, originally from Mississippi, moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a teen and spent 30 years in the Northeast. She relocated to Cowpens, South Carolina, in April 2015 to enjoy a quiet, country life. Risé has over 20 years of administrative and management experience along with 19 years of event planning

Colleen Cannon is a Clemson University graduate. She has worked for the Department of Social Services in Pickens, South Carolina, as well as Walt Disney World in Florida. Outside of work, she enjoys working out and taking evening walks with her parents around their neighborhood. She often

management. Her favorite pastimes include traveling, reading, hanging out with family and renovating her country home.

visits friends throughout the Carolinas. She is also an avid scrapbooker and painter, and is always looking for new crafting projects.

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