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
Christian Rosas-Salazar, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Allergy, Immunology & Pulmonary Medicine*
Kristin O’Grady, PhD
Assistant Professor, Radiology
Julia Sheffield, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Cosby Stone, Jr., MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Allergy, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine*
Eric Tkaczyk, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Dermatology
10:00 AM
Poster Session I
10:45 AM
Panel: Mentoring Discussion
11:45 AM
Lunch
12:45 PM
Keynote
Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD
Professor, Medicine
Director, Penn/CHOP Kidney Innovation Center
University of Pennsylvania
1:45 PM
Poster Session II
2:30 PM
Plenary Session II
Jessica Perkins, PhD
Assistant Professor, Human and Organizational Development
William Nobis, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Dolly Padovani-Claudio, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology
Brent Ferrell, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Hematology/Oncology**
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.
