DDRC Full Members
Membership in the Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center is open to all qualified faculty at Vanderbilt. Full VDDRC members must attain the rank of Assistant Professor or above and must conduct peer-reviewed, independent, and funded digestive disease-related basic, translational, or clinical research or be a project leader for a program project grant (PPG).
They must make a significant, ongoing contribution to Digestive Disease Research Center through participation in the research and scientific catalyst programs of the VDDRC, collaborative research, digestive disease biomedical education, and/or patient-care activities.
Faculty | Primary Appointment |
| Holly Algood, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Megan Behringer | Department of Biological Sciences |
| Mariana Byndloss, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| James E. Cassat, MD, PhD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Yash Choksi, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Timothy L. Cover, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| James Crowe, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Girish Hiremath, MD, MPH | Department of Pediatrics |
| Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, PhD | Department of Biomedical Engineering School of Engineering |
| Janet Markle, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Kristen Ogden, PhD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Kristin Patrick, PhD | Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Pathogenesis |
| Richard M Peek, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Claus Schneider, PhD | VUSM Department of Pharmacology |
| Eric V. Skaar, PhD, MPH | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Fang Yan, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Wenhan Zhu, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Rafael Arrojo e Drigo, PhD | Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Julio E. Ayala, PhD | Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Jennifer Below, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology |
| Raymond Blind, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Jonathan Brown, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Kristopher Burkewitz, Ph.D. | Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Sheila Collins, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Danielle Dean, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| C. Robb Flynn, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Manhal Izzy, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| John R. Koethe, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Yingchang (Kevin) Lu, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology |
| Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Martha Shrubsole, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Danxia Yu, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Elma Zaganjor, PhD | Department of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics |
| Wei Zheng, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Eunyoung Choi, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Lori Coburn, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Robert Coffey, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Kathleen DelGiorno, PhD | Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Jeremy Goettel, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| James R. Goldenring, PhD, MD | Department of Surgery |
| Xingyi Guo, PhD | Department of Biomedical Informatics |
| Tae Hyun Hwang, PhD | Program in Cancer Biology |
| Tina M. Iverson, PhD | VUSM Department of Pharmacology |
| Xiaoyu Jiang, PhD | Department of Radiology |
| Izumi Kaji, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Ken Lau, PhD | VUSM Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Ethan Lee, MD, PhD | VUSM Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Youngmin Lee, MD, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Mary Philip, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology |
| Bhuminder Singh, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Michelle E. Southard-Smith, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine |
| Matt Tyska, PhD | VUSM Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Christopher Williams, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| John Wilson, MD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Keith Wilson, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Nicholas Zachos, MD, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Alexander T. Hawkins, MD, MPH, FACS | Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery |