Education

MD - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

BA, Psychology & Brain Sciences - Dartmouth College

Postgraduate Training

Medicine and Pediatrics - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Education

M.D. - University of Alabama

Ph.D. - University of Alabama

B.S., Chemistry - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

B.S., Quantitative Finance - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Postgraduate Training

Clinical Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Residency Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Chief Resident, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Education

M.D. - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

M.Ed., George Peabody College

B.S., Psychology and Science Pre-professional studies, University of Notre Dame

Postgraduate training

Chief Resident - Nashville VA Medical Center

Internal Medicine and Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Sabrina Poon received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, her MD from Vanderbilt University, and her MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and completed the Brigham and Women’s Emergency Medicine Health Policy Research and Translation fellowship. Dr. Poon returned to Vanderbilt in 2018 to join the emergency medicine faculty as a K12 Emergency Care Research Scholar. Her research focuses on improving the value of acute care.

Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He is a graduate of the University of Florida, Florida State University College of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Patrick completed his training in pediatrics, neonatology and health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Patrick joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2013. His National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research focuses on improving outcomes for opioid-exposed infants and women with substance-use disorder and evaluating state and federal drug control policies. He previously served as Senior Science Policy Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and has testified before Congress on the rising numbers of newborns being diagnosed with opioid withdrawal after birth. He served as an expert consultant for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s development of a Guide to the Management of Opioid-Dependent Pregnant and Parenting Women and Their Children, as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and as a board member on the US Office of Personnel Management’s Multi-State Plan Program Advisory Board.

Dr. Patrick’s awards include the American Medical Association Foundation Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award, the Academic Pediatric Association Fellow Research Award Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Early Career Physician of the Year and the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award. His research has been published in leading scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics and Health Affairs.

Dr. Cody Chastain is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, CA in 2008 and completed his training in Internal Medicine in 2011 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. After working as a hospitalist for Duke University Health Systems, Dr. Chastain completed subspecialty training in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he subsequently joined faculty in 2014. Dr. Chastain leads the division’s Viral Hepatitis Program, and he actively cares for people living with HIV in the inpatient and outpatient setting. He actively collaborates in research focusing on HIV and viral hepatitis clinical outcomes. Dr. Chastain is an active educator in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education and has received multiple teaching awards. He serves as the Director for Evaluation and Assessment in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and as the Co-Primary Investigator and Viral Hepatitis Project Director for the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center.