VDDRC Associate Members
Membership in the Vanderbilt Digestive Diseases Research Center is open to all qualified faculty at Vanderbilt. Associate members are faculty or post-doctoral fellows who show exceptional promise for eventual transition to independent investigators, who conduct digestive disease-related research, and/or who make a contribution to VDDRC and other digestive disease-related programs through a demonstrated interest and/or participation in research, education, and/or patient care activities.
Faculty | Primary Appointment |
| Sari Acra, MD, MPH | Department of Pediatrics |
| Samuel Bailin, MD, MSCI | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Curtis Gabriel, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Clint Hasenour, PhD | VU School of Engineering |
| Mirazul Islam, PhD | VUSM Program in Cancer Biology |
| Shannon Kordus, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology |
| Mark A. Magnuson, MD | VUSM Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Nick Markham, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Mona Mashayekhi, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Leslie Meenderink, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Maribeth Nicholson, MD, MPH | Department of Pediatrics |
| Danyvid Olivares-Villagomez, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Blanca M. Piazuelo, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Jason Samuels, MD | Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery |
| Elizabeth Scoville, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Jeffrey Singer, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Nadia Markie Sneed, PhD, RN, APRN, FNP-BC | School of Nursing |
| Ashley Spann, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Marcus Tan, MBBS | Department of Surgery |
| Kasey Vickers, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Celestine Wanjalla, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Kay Washington, MD, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology |
| Nathan Winn, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |