Sara Van Driest, MD, PhD, is the Director of Pediatrics for the NIH All of Us Research Program. She is a former Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics and former Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She completed her MD and PhD at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine followed by Pediatric residency and Clinical Pharmacology fellowship at Vanderbilt. Prior to joining the NIH, Dr. Van Driest's laboratory at VUMC was focused on pediatric precision medicine, specifically using electronic health records and other clinical data to fill knowledge gaps in pharmacogenetics. Now, as Director of Pediatrics for All of Us, she will lead efforts to enroll a broad range of pediatric and adolescent participants into the research cohort.