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 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 |
| Scott H. Baldwin, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Evan Brittain, MD, MSCI | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Jonathan Brown, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Mariana Byndloss, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Richard Caprioli, PhD | VU Department of Chemistry |
| James E. Cassat, MD, PhD | Department of Pediatrics |
| 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 |
| Sheila Collins, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Timothy L. Cover, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| James Crowe, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Qi Dai, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Ronald B. Emerson, PhD | VUSM Department of Pharmacology |
| Jane Ferguson, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Barbara Fingleton, PhD | VUSM Program in Cancer Biology |
| C. Robb Flynn, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Maureen Gannon, PhD, MS | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Jeremy Goettel, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Jack Hawiger, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine |
| Scott Heibert, PhD | VUSM Department of Biochemistry |
| Patrick Hu, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology |
| Tina M. Iverson, PhD | VUSM Department of Pharmacology |
| John R. Koethe, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Ken Lau, PhD | VUSM Department of Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Ethan Lee, MD, PhD | VUSM Department of Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Youngmin Lee, MD, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Houra Merrikh, PhD | VUSM Department of Biochemistry |
| Kevin Niswender, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Keith Obstein, MD, MPH | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Kristen Ogden, PhD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Mary Philip, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology |
| Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Kevin Schey, PhD | VUSM Department of Biochemistry |
| Claus Schneider, PhD | VUSM Department of Pharmacology |
| Carlos Henrique Serezani, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Martha Shrubsole, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Richard Simerly, PhD | VUSM Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Bhuminder Singh, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Eric V. Skaar, PhD, MPH | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Michelle E. Southard-Smith, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Genetic Medicine |
| John M. Stafford, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
| Matt Tyska, PhD | VUSM Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
| Luc Van Kaer, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| Kasey Vickers, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Kay Washington, MD, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology |
| David Wasserman, PhD | VUSM Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Christopher Williams, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nurtrition |
| John Wilson, MD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology |
| Keith Wilson, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition |
| Fang Yan, MD | Department of Pediatrics |
| Jamey D. Young, PhD | VUSM Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics |
| Danxia Yu, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Nicholas Zachos, MD, PhD | Department of Surgery |
| Wei Zheng, MD, PhD | Department of Medicine, Division of Epidemiology |
| Wenhan Zhu, PhD | Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology |