Maria Garza, MBA

Maria is a Senior Program Manager in the Department of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She earned both her bachelor’s and MBA degrees from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee where she also minored in negotiations and entrepreneurship. Maria joined the Donahue Lab in 2019. Most of her work focuses on administrating and overseeing studies from inception to close out by. Her day-to-day efforts focus on data collection processing, management of databases, as well as recruitment, and patient interactions. Previous studies she has worked on focused on nutrition and behavioral interventions in underserved communities. Additionally, Maria assists other labs and collaborators across departments at VUMC during study development and close-out.