Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center Leadership
Richard Peek, MD
Director, Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center and Director, VDDRC Enrichment Program
Professor of Medicine
Keith T. Wilson, MD
Co-Director, Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center and Director, VDDRC Pilot and Feasibility Program
Professor of Medicine
Dana Borden Lacy, PhD
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Digestive Disease Research Center
Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Core Leadership
Faculty | Core |
| James Christopher Slaughter, PhD | Biostatistics Core, Director |
| Matt Tyska, PhD | Cell Imaging Core, Director |
| W. Gray Jerome, PhD | Cell Imaging Core, Co-Leader |
| Jennifer Schafer, PhD | Cell Imaging Core, Co-Leader |
| Scott W. Hiebert, PhD | Flow Cytometry Core, Co-Director |
| Eric Skaar, PhD, MPH | Flow Cytometry Core, Co-Director |
| David K. Flaherty | Flow Cytometry Core, Core Manager |
| Kevin Schey, PhD | Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics Core, Director |
| Wade Calcutt, PhD | Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics Core, Co-Leader |
| Richard M. Caprioli, PhD | Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics Core, Co-Leader |
| William Hayes McDonald, PhD | Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics Core, Co-Leader |
| Kristie M. Lindsey Rose, PhD | Mass Spectrometry/Proteomics Core, Co-Leader |
| M. Kay Washington, MD, PhD | Preclinical Models of Digestive Diseases Core, Director |
| Jeffery L. Franklin, PhD | Preclinical Models of Digestive Diseases/GI Organoids Subcore, Co-Leader |
| James R. Goldenring, MD, PhD | Preclinical Models of Digestive Diseases/GI Organoids Subcore, Leader |
| Todd Peterson, PhD | Preclinical Models of Digestive Diseases Core/Preclinical Imaging Subcore, Leader |
| M. Blanca Piazuelo, MD | Preclinical Models of Digestive Diseases Core/Tissue Morphology Subcore, Co-Leader |
Program Directors
Faculty | Program |
| Timothy Cover, MD | Gastrointestinal Infections and Injury (GI) |
| James Goldenring, MD, PhD | Progenitor Cells, Development, Regeneration, and Pre-malignant Lesions (PC) |
| E. Michelle Southard-Smith, PhD | Progenitor Cells, Development, Regeneration, and Pre-malignant Lesions (PC) |
| Dana Borden Lacy, PhD | Obesity, Metabolism, and Nutrition (OMN) |
Internal Advisory Board
Faculty | Primary Appointment |
| Gordon Bernard, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine |
| Raymond Harris, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension |
| Lawrence Marnett, PhD | VUSM Department of Biochemistry |
| Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD | VUSM Department of Biochemistry |
| Alvin C. Powers, MD | Department of Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism |
External Advisory Board
Faculty | Primary Appointment |
| Fayez K. Ghishan, MD | University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics |
| Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD | University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Medicine |
| Cynthia Sears, MD | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| D. Brent Polk, MD | Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nurtition |