We are deeply committed to improving cardiovascular health for all humans through high-quality, impactful research and training future cardiovascular researchers.
Our Mission
To advance cardiovascular health through innovative translational and clinical research.
The VTRACC Approach
We are a multidisciplinary group of investigators and research support personnel whose purpose is to accelerate high-quality innovative research. Our core philosophy is that together we achieve more, faster, and with greater impact, through collaborative sharing of ideas and resources.
Key Research Areas
Our portfolio of research spans the breadth of cardiovascular disease, its risk factors and associated conditions.
Our team leads bedside-to-bench research, translates preclinical findings and accelerates early human results to broader populations.
We utilize a variety of methods including human physiologic studies and clinical trials, observational cohort studies, big data from health systems and consortiums, multi-omics, multi-modality non-invasive cardiovascular imaging, and many more.
Big Data
- Quinn Wells
- Ravi Shah
- Evan Brittain
- Matt Freiberg
Biobanking
- Yan Ru Su
Cardiac Rehab
- Justin Bachmann
- Brian Lindman
Cardiovascular Epidemiology
- Deepak Gupta
- Ravi Shah
- Matt Freiberg
- Loren Lipworh
- Danxia Yu
- Ghadeer Dawaas
- Evan Brittain
Cardiovascular Imaging
- Deepak Gupta
- Evan Brittain
- Quinn Wells
- Aaron Aday
- Brian Lindman
Coronary Artery Disease
- Andrew DeFilippis
- Dan Munoz
- Danxia Yu
- J Jeffrey Carr
Genetics
- Ben Shoemaker
- Quinn Wells
- Jonathan Mosley
- Jonathan Brown
Heart Failure
- Deepak Gupta
- Ravi Shah
- Evan Brittain
- Quinn Wells
- Lynne Stevenson
- Jean Wassenaar
- Vineet Agrawal
Immune Mechanisms of Disease
- Matt Freiberg
- Kaushik Amancherla
- Ravi Shah
- Jane Freedman
Heart Rhythm Disorders
- Ben Shoemaker
- Giovanni Davogustto
Metabolism
- Ravi Shah
- Andrew Perry
- Jane Ferguson
- Kaushik Amancherla
- Vineet Agrawal
Multi-omics
- Ravi Shah
- Andrew Perry
- Quinn Wells
- Evan Brittain
- Kaushik Amencherla
- Jane Fergusion
- Jane Freedman
Patient Reported Outcomes
- Justin Bachmann
Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricle
- Evan Brittain
- Vineet Agrawal
Transplant
- Kaushik Amancherla
- Lynne Stevenson
- Ravi Shah
Valvular/Structural Heart Disease
- Brian Lindman
Vascular
- Aaron Aday
- Jane Freedman
Women's Cardiovascular Health
- Kathyrn Lindley
- Debra Dixon
- Deepak Gupta
History
Since our founding in 2013, our team has tripled in size, received more than $100 million in research funding, and contributed to more than 1,000 publications. Our trainees have joined faculty at academic medical centers, including Vanderbilt. Our faculty and research staff are local, national, and international leaders.
To achieve our aim of advancing cardiovascular health, we actively engage our research participants, collaborators, patients and communities to gather insights based on their voices and ideas. We are committed to fostering an environment that values all backgrounds, roles, and contributions.
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Help support innovative, impactful patient-centered cardiovascular research
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Gifts to this fund will support activities designed to advance cardiovascular health through innovative translational and clinical research.
Thank you for making a difference in cardiovascular health though your generous donation.
