VDTRC Team Members | Vanderbilt University Medical Center

WE HAVE SEVERAL OPENINGS TO JOIN THE TEAM -- INTERESTED CANDIDATES, PLEASE SEE THE "OPEN POSITIONS" PAGE.

We are a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and engineers whose mission is to seamlessly integrate patient care, clinical investigation, and fundamental technology research with application in dermatology, oncology, hematology, and other specialties.

Faculty

Eric Tkaczyk, M.D., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Dermatology

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, University of Tartu, Estonia

Physician Scientist

Inga Saknite, Ph.D.

Adjoint Assistant Professor in Dermatology at the Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic

Senior Researcher at the University of Latvia

Postdoctoral Fellows

Andrew McNeil, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Medical image computing, deep learning for medical image segmentation and biomarker discovery

Shramana Ghosh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Mechanical device design; characterization of viscoelastic and biomechanical parameters of biomaterials

Research Assistants

Bohan Jiang, B.S.

Research Assistant

Medical image processing and analysis with deep learning

Madeline Marks, B.S.

Clinical Research Coordinator

Protocol development and implementation

Tyra Silaphet, B.A., B.S.

Research Assistant

Data management and image analysis

Undergraduate Students

Sahil Patel

Undergraduate Student, Neuroscience and Philosophy

Biomechanical properties of the skin

Shinwho Kwun

Undergraduate Student

Spectral imaging, patient home photography, protocol development and implementation

Siddharth Shah

Undergraduate Student, Computer Science

Ultrasound image segmentation, core scripts

Medical Students and Residents

	Hayden Smith Medical Student Dynamic indentation of skin analysis, biomechanical properties of skin
	Katie O' Connell, M.D., M.S. Resident Biomechanical properties of skin, rheum-derm and oncoderm mechanical device application