Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI

Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and has an active translational research program focused on mechanisms of pulmonary vascular disease and right heart failure.

Additionally, Dr. Brittain's research focuses on the epidemiologic, molecular, and genetic profiling of pulmonary hypertension phenotypes and the use of wearable devices to monitor and promote physical activity in pulmonary hypertension and other chronic diseases. 

In each of these areas Dr. Brittain has leveraged the full complement of research capacity including experimental models, human clinical trials, and large institutional databases to test hypotheses. Each of these research areas has led to grant funding, manuscript publication, and contributions to the understanding of pulmonary vascular disease.

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Key Research Areas

Big Data

Cardiovascular Imaging

Heart Failure

Multi-omics

Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricle

Grants

• 4/24-3/27 R34 HL173389 NHLBI MhOVE-PPH Study: Mobile health interventiOn to improVe Exercise in Pediatric PH
• 9/23-8/ 25 R21 HL 172038 NHLBI Impact of Physical Activity, Sleep, and Genetic Background on Cardiovascular Risk in the All of Us Program
• 9/22-8/27 R01 HL 155278 NHLBI Clinical and Mechanistic Understanding of Right Ventricular Steatosis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 
• 9/22-8/27 R61/R33 HL 158941 NHLBI The Mobile Health Intervention in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (MOVE PAH) 
• 9/22-8/26 R01 FD 007627 FDA Risk and Resilience in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Genetically Susceptible Individuals
• 4/22-3/27 R01 HL 163960 NHLBI Network Medicine and Systems Pharmacology to Advance Precision Medicine in Combined Pulmonary Hypertension
• 2/20-1/25 R01 DK124845 NIDDK Effect of PDE5 Inhibition on Adipose Metabolism in Humans
• 4/19-3/25 R01 HL146588 NIH/NHLBI Clinical, Genetic, and Proteomic Risk Factors for Pulmonary Hypertension in Heart Failure

Honors and Awards

Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, 2023 

Early Career Achievement Award, American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Circulation Assembly, 2019