Topics: Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Informatics, Cancer, Clinical Trials, Dermatology, Engineering and Technology, mpox

Country: Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)

Dr. Tkaczyk is a physician-scientist with research interests in biophotonics for diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases. He is a graduate of the MD/PhD at the University of Michigan, with PhD in electrical engineering from the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS). At CUOS, he overlapped with his academic grandfather Gerard Mourou, the 2018 Nobel Laureate who founded the lab.  Dr. Tkaczyk's post-doctoral training in medical device design at the University of Tartu was supported by Fulbright and Whitaker awards. Since 2016, Dr. Tkaczyk is the founding Director of the Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic (VDTRC.org). He is active in the leadership of several conferences and international working groups related to artificial intelligence and dermatologic imaging technologies, which is his research focus. 

Expertise: Dermatology; GVHD; Clinical skin measurements; Sclerosing and inflammatory skin diseases; Stevens-Johnson Syndrome; Artificial Intelligence; Biophotonics; Noninvasive imaging; Intravital microscopy

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As a Senior Population/Public Health Manager at VIGH, Chelsea will manage Dr. Aliyu's training grants, work with partners, and support training and capacity-building projects in Nigeria. She came to VIGH from the VUMC Department of Pediatrics, where she coordinated community- and clinic-based clinical trials for children and families. Before joining VUMC, Chelsea lived in South Africa for three years as a Princeton in Africa fellow with mothers2mothers and then as a graduate student at the University of Cape Town, where her work focused on the role of communities in strengthening health systems and health systems research.

Chelsea received her B.A. in Political Science from Vanderbilt University, with a minor in Human and Organizational Development. She also holds an MPH (Health Systems) from the University of Cape Town. Chelsea enjoys baking, knitting, and making pottery in her free time. 

Topics: Education and Training (Capacity Building), Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health, Pediatrics, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics

Countries: Bahamas, Belize, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago

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Topics: Mental Health, Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Countries: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago

Dr. Warren received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 2005 from the University of Miami and is currently a Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Special Education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He is the Endowed Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's (VKC) Treatment and Research Institute on Autism Spectrum Disorders (TRIAD), Director of the Division of Developmental Medicine at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, and Director of Autism Research for the VKC and the Department of Pediatrics. His current research focuses on early detection and intervention for ASD as well as in the application of telehealth for enhanced identification and service.

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