2025 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Student Life Center
8:00 AM
Registration and light breakfast
8:30 AM
Forum welcome and mentoring and service awards
8:45 AM
Plenary Session I
Childhood Asthma: Infectious Etiology of a Noncommunicable Disease (T0)
Christian Rosas-Salazar, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Allergy, Immunology & Pulmonary Medicine*
Advancements in MRI Methods for the Lumbosacral Spinal Cord for Application in Multiple Sclerosis (T1)
Kristin O’Grady, PhD
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Understanding the Role of Volatility in Delusional Beliefs (T2)
Julia Sheffield, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Implementing Penicillin Allergy Delabelling via Pragmatic Studies and Trials (T3)
Cosby Stone, Jr., MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine*
The Extended Amygdala and Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) (T0)
William Nobis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
10:00 AM
Poster Session I
10:45 AM
Panel: Mentoring Discussion
Ravi Shah, MD
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine*
Alan Storrow, MD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Lorraine Ware, MD
Professor, Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine*
11:45 AM
Lunch
12:45 PM
Keynote
Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine
Co-Director, Penn/CHOP Kidney Innovation Center
University of Pennsylvania
1:45 PM
Poster Session II
2:30 PM
Plenary Session II
Perceived Norms About Alcohol Use and HIV/STI Prevention among Adolescents and Young Adults in Rural Uganda (T4)
Jessica Perkins, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human and Organizational Development
Skin-deep Innovations: Supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Academic Dermatology (T2)
Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dermatology
Finding Common Ground in Retinopathies (T1)
Dolly Padovani-Claudio, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Dissecting Microenvironmental and Immune Contributions in Leukemia Pathogenesis (T0/1)
Brent Ferrell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Hematology/Oncology**
Localizing Criminal Behavior to an Abnormal Brain Circuit in Neurological Patients (T2)
Ryan Darby, MD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
3:45 PM
Closing remarks and poster session winner announcements
* Department of Pediatrics
** Department of Medicine
All are welcome at the 2025 Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum.
It is a great day for making connections, supporting trainees, and for all lab members to attend.
We hope you’ll join us!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine
Director, Penn/CHOP Kidney Innovation Center
University of Pennsylvania
Ryan Darby, MD
Brent Ferrell, MD, PhD
William Nobis, MD, PhD
Kristin O’Grady, PhD
Julia Sheffield, PhD
And more to come!
Email rebecca.helton@vumc.org.
