Vandna Jerath MD

10/06/2025

Congratulations to these Nobel Prize recipients in Medicine! 🎉

BREAKING NEWS
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

This year’s medicine laureates have discovered how the immune system is kept in check. The body’s powerful immune system must be regulated, or it may attack our own organs. Brunkow, Ramsdell and Sakaguchi have been awarded this year’s medicine prize for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body.

The laureates identified the immune system’s security guards, regulatory T cells, which prevent immune cells from attacking our own body.

The laureates’ discoveries launched the field of peripheral tolerance, spurring the development of medical treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases. This may also lead to more successful transplantations. Several of these treatments are now undergoing clinical trials.

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05/23/2025

All the feels! Where does the time go? This sweet monkey graduated from high school and I’m one proud bua!! I’m excited for him to attend CU Denver this fall for college. This kid is wicked smart, incredibly kind, thoughtful, fun, jovial, loyal, and has a killer smile and warm heart. I treasure our connection and it’s been a privilege to see him grow into an amazing young man.

This was our first family celebration and photos without my dad. Our hearts were happy and full, but ached as we miss him deeply. His presence and love surrounded us and nobody would have been more excited and prouder to see this guy graduate than his Dadu! ❤️

I loved how the ceremony highlighted diversity, culture, and belonging among their graduates. Congratulations class of 2025 - your future is exciting!!
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03/08/2025

Love this - Happy International Women’s Day!

08/14/2024

Sweet baby girl Maiah is now 9 weeks old and has beautiful eyelashes and likes to snuggle! I love it when the babies I deliver stop by to visit. 💕

06/17/2024

It’s been hard to post today, but thought it was important to celebrate this incredible man.

19 years ago he was told he had 2 years to live with treatment for his leukemia (blood cancer). He has fought to stay alive every single day. He has outlived anyone’s expectations despite having every medical complication and co-morbidity possible. Seems so unfair and heartbreaking for him to have to fight to survive another cancer yet again. 💔

The last 6 weeks have been hard as my family weighed options and had difficult conversations. Fighting and surviving is all my dad knows so he’s determined and going to try his “level best” as he puts it. So here we are doing chemo and radiation again. It’s never easy. Week 1 down and 5 more weeks to go with probably less than a 50-50 chance. He’s high risk and this is scary - even more so than the first time. His heart, mind, and soul are strong, but his body is weak. As a daughter and doctor, I know too much and am consumed with worry, but he has faith that he has more to do and give in life so I follow and trust his lead. Thank you to those reaching out and praying for us - it means more than you know. 🙏🏽💕

Valiant. Optimistic. Brave. Willful. Resilient. Tenacious. Strong. Inspiring. This is my father. If anyone can pull off this miracle, it is him.

He is an amazing husband, father, grandfather, and human. He is the BEST defender, protector, leader, supporter, trailblazer, and cheerleader. He is my favorite person. He levels up in all he does and faces adversity with incredible strength, determination, courage, and grace. I am grateful and blessed to be his daughter and am the woman I am because of all he has taught me. I hope and pray we have more Father’s Days together, but for now, I will continue to celebrate every day I have with him. Happy Father’s Day - love you, my sweet Pithaji and I am so incredibly proud of you! ❤️

04/21/2024

All grown up and so handsome! My sweet nephew is headed to prom with his beautiful date, .audrey15 , and their friends!! I never went to prom - I was always that geeky girl (haha - still am!) so it’s been really fun to experience this through his eyes. I love being a bua and am grateful he shares these special moments with me.

What a stunning couple and fun friends - love seeing their joy and excitement! They are headed to prom in style in a limo and I hope they have an amazing, fun, and magical evening! ❤️

01/04/2024

We had a busy day of patients, but made it out for an Optima Women's Healthcare holiday dinner to celebrate the new year!! 🎉 Armi joined us briefly by video too. We had fun laughing about our less than stellar trivia skills! Grateful for this amazing team and all they do to care for patients!! 🎉

01/01/2024

Cheers to a new year!! 🎉🥂This is a time when I reflect on the past year which was harder and bumpier than I would have liked. I know I have learned and grown from both my blessings and challenges which only makes me stronger and ready for the new year ahead.

I also reflect on my hopes and desires for the new year. I often set new goals and resolutions as most of us do, but I’m not going to do that this year. I’m going to approach the year with intentions instead. At the start of a new year, I also like to pick a word to serve as a mantra or guiding light. I’m following Ted Lasso’s wisdom and choose BELIEVE.

This year:
🎉 I believe 2024 will be full of magic, wonder, and awe.
🎉 I believe it will be a year of love, laughter, and light.
🎉 I believe I’ll have many new adventures in the year ahead.
🎉 I believe the year will be less chaotic, more fun, and relaxing.
🎉 I believe I’ll continue to have a positive impact caring for and serving my patients.
🎉 I believe I will spend meaningful time with my family and friends.
🎉 I believe my friendships will continue to grow and evolve - my inner circle will be mutually nurturing and inspiring.
🎉 I believe I will continue to cultivate meaningful connections and relationships that are energizing, supportive, and add positivity & growth to my life.
🎉 I believe nothing is permanent and that we are in a constant state of flow - positive things are flowing to me.
🎉 I believe I am ready to receive miracles and blessings.
🎉 I believe I will continue to exude warmth, positivity, and authenticity.
🎉 I believe I will continue to make a difference in the world.
🎉 I believe I am going to eliminate limiting beliefs, obstacles, and negativity.
🎉 I believe I will have gratitude and blessings daily.
🎉 I believe I will be open to and ready for abundance, love, success, and peace.
🎉 I believe my heart, mind, soul, and spirit will guide me to the right path and choices.
🎉 I believe this is going to be a transformational year.
🎉 I believe this is going to be an amazing and incredible year.

Wishing you a Happy New Year and 2024 full of happiness, good health, laughter, blessings, and miracles! What’s on your list of intentions, affirmations, or beliefs this year? 🎉🥂🥳💕

11/24/2023

Wishing you and your family and friends a Happy Thanksgiving! Always grateful, thankful, and blessed. 🦃🎃

11/20/2023

I am blessed beyond measure. So much birthday love!! 💕 I had a fabulous birthday week and weekend!! As an Ob/Gyn I’ve delivered over 5000 babies and think every birthday is special. Thank you for the birthday cards, texts, kind posts, phone calls, company, friendship, and love. It’s always heartwarming to hear from so many around the globe. I especially appreciate my friends who made an extra effort to celebrate with me in person!

With age comes wisdom. I know that the people who are meant to be in my life are here for me and show up in the most amazing ways!! I had a healthcare CEO ask me how I stayed balanced and was able to exude warmth, joy and positivity. I told him it was by being grateful for my blessings and having meaningful connections in my life.

With gratitude comes abundance and connection builds community. My life is abundantly fulfilling and robust. I am truly grateful for my family, friends, patients, incredible life experiences, and phenomenal relationships that nourish my soul. My community rocks! This is 55 and my heart is happy!! ❤️

11/01/2023

I’m feeling emotional and reflective today. A patient of mine for 25 years has a complicated case of metastatic cancer. She is my same age and I was the physician to discover it. She sincerely thanked me today and told me she was incredibly grateful that I listened to her and did a thorough exam when others dismissed her symptoms. She thanked me for saving her life. I only wish that I could save her life. She has a long, hard journey ahead and is in my ongoing thoughts and prayers. 💔😰🙏🏽 A good reminder that life is precious and to live it to the fullest.

01/08/2023

Happy New Year! 🎉 Hope your holidays were merry and bright and full of love and laughter. I haven’t had a chance to post lately as my schedule has been hectic. As I start 2023, I reflect on the past year and am full of joy for the time I spend with family, friends, colleagues, and patients. I feel gratitude for my blessings and opportunities personally and professionally. I am grateful for the lessons learned.

I’m not making any goals or resolutions, but going to stay focused on these insights as priorities for 2023.

🌟 Knowing you are blessed to have an amazing inner circle and can trust them with anything. Lean on those good people.
🌟 Understanding that life has ups and downs, good days and bad days, successes and failures, but nothing is permanent. You might not be able to control circumstances, but you can control your perspective. Making the most of each day is what is most important.
🌟 Happiness is from within and in your control. Keep your internal dialogue positive and make good choices. Treasure each day and live life to the fullest.
🌟 Be a good human, serve others, and spread kindness. Nothing else matters.
🌟 Health is everything. Nurture your mind, body, and soul. Be good to yourself.
🌟 Connection is essential. Plant those seeds and water them daily.
🌟 Learn and grow from every experience. That growth moves you forward, making you stronger and wiser.
🌟 Dismiss limiting beliefs and judgment from others. Continue being your best self. Being authentic, vulnerable, and open brings abundance in life.

What will be your focus this year? 🌟🎉💕