Kelly Hammonds has worked in healthcare administration for 22 years. She joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics in 2021 after spending 16 years in the field of Pathology. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she transitioned away from clinical-facing roles and found her professional home within DBMI. In December 2023, she took on the role of Assistant to the Chair. Her responsibilities include supporting Dr. Peter Embi, assisting with faculty recruitment, event planning, organizing Grand Rounds, and providing general administrative support for the department.

Xingyi Guo, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Epidemiology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is the Principal Investigator with the Guo Lab, affiliated with the VUMC Departments of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics. 

The Guo Lab has a broad interest in the research of cancer etiology, prevention and precision medicine through developing bioinformatics, statistical and machine learning approaches and integrating multi-omics data (including single cell-based omics data), with a major goal of identifying susceptibility variants and genes for human cancers. 

Education
PhD - Bioinformatics/Genomics - Zhejiang University, 2008
Fellowship - Bioinformatics/Functional Genomics - Albert Einstein College - 2013

Guo Lab website: http://www.guoxlab.org/