{"id":139,"date":"2021-01-04T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/epi-phd2026\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2026-10-15T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:26:37","slug":"graduate-program-faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/epi-phd\/our-people\/graduate-program-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Program Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nPosition<\/strong><\/td>\nArea<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Margaret Adgent,\u00a0PhD, MSPH<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Associate Professor<\/td>\nHealth Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melinda\u00a0Aldrich,\u00a0PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine, Thoracic Surgery, Biomedical Informatics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Muktar Aliyu, MD,\u00a0DrPH, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nHealth Policy, Medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kristin Archer, DPT, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nOrthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carolyn Audet, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nHealth Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jennifer Below, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Veronique Belzil, PhD, MS<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nNeurology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hui Cai, MD, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Associate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Qiuyin\u00a0Cai, MD, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Qi Dai, MD, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ghadeer Dawwas, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stephen Deppen, PhD, MA, MSES<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nThoracic Surgery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Todd Edwards, PhD, MS<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wes Ely, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dan Escudero, PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Matthew Freiberg, MD, MSc<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Debra Friedman, MD, MS<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nPediatrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kelsie Full, PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Carlos Grijalva, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nHealth Policy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xingyi Guo, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nPediatrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tina Hartert, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine and Pediatrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacklyn Hellwege, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Assistant Professor<\/td>\nMedicine\/Division of Genetic Medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timothy Hohman, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nNeurology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Elizabeth Jasper, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\nObstetrics & Gynecology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Natalia Jimenez-Truque, MSCI, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Assistant Professor<\/td>\nPediatrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nikhil Khankari, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nAssistant Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Koethe, MD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Loren Lipworth, ScD<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jirong Long, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
April Pettit, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lauren Peetluk, PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nAdjunct Instructor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine; Biostatistics; Biomedical Informatics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cassianne Robinson-Cohen, PhD, MS<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Russell\u00a0Rothman, MD, MPP<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christianne\u00a0Roumie,\u00a0MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine; Pediatrics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martha Shrubsole, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bryan\u00a0Shepherd,\u00a0PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nBiostatistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xiao-Ou\u00a0Shu,\u00a0MD, PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
J. Christopher Slaughter, DrPH, MS<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nBiostatistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Timothy Sterling, MD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hilary Tindle, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yuri van der Heijden, MD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Digna\u00a0Velez Edwards,\u00a0PhD<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nObstetrics & Gynecology<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pingsheng Wu,\u00a0PhD, MS<\/a><\/td>\nResearch Professor<\/td>\nBiostatistics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Danxia Yu, PhD<\/a><\/td>\nAssociate Professor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wei\u00a0Zheng,\u00a0MD, PhD, MPH<\/a><\/td>\nProfessor<\/td>\nMedicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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