Rachelle Crescenzi, Ph.D.

The overarching goal of my lab is to improve the lives of patients with understudied vascular diseases, with an emphasis on those that impact women's health, through imaging sciences and multidisciplinary collaborations. Current research projects focus on developing advanced imaging tools to address clinical needs for 1) objective diagnostic criteria for lipedema, 2) risk assessment for lymphedema and fibrosis secondary to lymph node removal, and 3) radiologic markers of salt sensitive blood pressure. The relevance of lymphatic networks to obesity and salt sensitive hypertension are also being explored in pre-clinical and clinical studies.
We build strong collaborations with scientists and physicians at VUIIS, VUMC Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt Dayani Center for Health and Wellness, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute, Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center, VUMC Departments of Nephrology and Clinical Pharmacology, as well as extramural collaborators.
For more information regarding available position in the lab please contact me by email.
For patients who may be interested in learning more about our research studies please contact us at salt@vumc.org.
A complete list of Dr. Crescenzi's publications can be found here