Brent Savoie, MD, JD, is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the Department of Radiology and is the Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an affiliate faculty member at the Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).

Dr. Savoie is a co-founder of Primeros Pasos, a community health program serving communities in Western Guatemala with preventive and curative medical services since 2002. At Primeros Pasos, he participated in the design and implementation of clinical care, health education, and nutrition programs. The clinic serves as a clinical rotation site for Guatemalan and foreign medical students. Vanderbilt medical students have participated in rotations at the clinic since 2004. Prior to working in Guatemala, Dr. Savoie has conducted research and participated in service initiatives in South Africa, Tanzania, and the Dominican Republic.

Brent has published on topics related to health and human rights law – focusing on the impact of intellectual property law on access to pharmaceuticals and medical technology. As part of his research in this area he worked as a legal fellow with Physicians for Human Rights.

Immediately before returning to Vanderbilt, Brent worked at Evolent Health where he partnered with U.S.-based health systems in the design and implementation of initiatives to improve population health outcomes.

Dr. Savoie earned a MD and BA from Vanderbilt University, and also holds a JD with a focus on health and human rights law from the University of Virginia where he was a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Graduate Fellow. He is proficient in Spanish and French.

Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After growing up in Nashville and working at the Comprehensive Care Center during his summer vacations in high school, Peter received his BA in biology from Yale University and worked as a research assistant and coordinator in the epidemiology/outcomes unit of the Center For AIDS Research at Vanderbilt from 2006 through 2010. He received an ScM in Epidemiology (Infectious Diseases), an MHS in Biostatistics and PhD in Epidemiology (General Epidemiology & Methods) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Rebeiro's research focuses on quantifying measurement error, assessing quality of care, and analyzing spatial and contextual factors related to the HIV Continuum of Care and TB treatment outcomes in North, Central, and South America. He is continuing his collaboration with the epidemiology/outcomes group here, and he now also works with the Caribbean, Central and South American Network for HIV Epidemiology (CCASAnet) and the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium, as well as the Regional Prospective Observational Research for TB (RePORT)-Brazil cohort. He also directs the Vanderbilt Epidemiology PhD program.

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Dr. Tkaczyk is a graduate of the MD/PhD program at the University of Michigan. He has a PhD in electrical engineering under the pedigree of Nobel Laureate Gerard Mourou. Dr. Tkaczyk's post-doctoral training in medical device design at the University of Tartu Institute of Physics was supported by the Fullbright and Whitaker awards. He is active in the leadership of several conferences and international working groups related to artificial intelligence and dermatologic imaging technologies. 

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Julian Genkins, MD, is a clinical Informatician and internist at VUMC. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt followed by and internal medicine residency at UCSF and clinical informatics Fellowship at Stanford. His professional interests lie at the intersection of clinical informatics, provider wellbeing, preventative care, and learning theory/health professions education. 

Sarah Osmundson, MD, MS, is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). As a clinician-investigator, she is dedicated to advancing research in the areas of pregnancy and postpartum care with a long-term vision to impact healthcare quality and efficiency. Originally from Chicago, she completed her residency at Northwestern University and fellowship at Stanford University. She augmented her clinical experience with formal research training through a Master's degree in epidemiology and clinical research and additional biostatistical coursework on predictive modeling through her Career Development Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In 2015, she joined the VUMC faculty where her clinical focus is caring for women with complex medical problems in pregnancy. 

She maintains a diverse research portfolio funded through the National Institutes of Health (NIDA, NICHD, NINR) and in collaboration with researchers from health policy, biostatistics, bioinformatics, public health and pediatrics. Her work with the VUMC Maternal Pharmacoepidemiology group uses Tennessee Medicaid data linked to vital records to examine medication prescribing during pregnancy and postpartum. She also specializes in longitudinal studies of pregnant patients and their children, clinical application of prediction models, and decision support tools to enhance best practice guidelines. At a national level, she is involved with the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine through the Publications Committee and Board of Directors. 

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Dr. Qian is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology; Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He completed his Bachelor of Science, in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Delaware(May 2012) and his MD from New York University (May 2016). Eddie completed his internal medicine residency training and pulmonary critical care fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Eddie is currently on faculty in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine where he serves as the Assistant Medical Director to the Medical ICU and Assistant Program Director for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program. His research interests include using informatics in clinical trials.

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I am an emergency medicine physician, and I joined the Vanderbilt community as a Clinical Informatics Fellow in August 2021. I attended medical school at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., and was introduced to the field of Clinical Informatics through research projects at the Medstar Health National Institute for Human Factors. I worked for a digital front door health-tech company called Clearstep Health. My deepest interests lie in the exploration of new, innovative technologies that can be adapted to healthcare, telemedicine, and electronic health record usability.

Dr. Cathy Ivory has more than 20 years of experience as a perinatal staff nurse, and system-level nurse leader and has been a VUSN faculty member since 2012. In her current role at VUMC, Dr. Ivory facilitates the evidenced-based practice and nursing research activities for nurses throughout the enterprise and is a member of the executive nursing team.

Dr. Ivory is a recognized expert in perinatal nursing, nursing informatics and healthcare leadership and is a health services researcher. She is a past president of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and is the current vice-chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Health Informatics Certification Commission and is on the Steering Committee for the Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI). She is also a member of the research council for the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

Dr. Ivory's research interests focus on using data generated by nurses to demonstrate the unique contribution of nursing to outcomes. Clinical areas of interest include reducing maternal morbidity and mortality and health impacts of differences across populations.

Dr. Aldrich conducts cutting-edge research to inform the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lung cancer for all populations, including understanding genetic and non-genetic determinants of health contributing to lung cancer risk. As a leader in lung cancer screening research, her work has played a pivotal role in shaping key health policy guidelines for lung cancer screening issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). https://medsites.vumc.org/aldrichlab