Julie received her doctoral degree April 2021 from Belmont University. She is accepted to the VA Postdoctoral Fellowship and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Biomedical Informatics.
Joseph Vento obtained his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, and then went to medical school and completed his Internal Medicine residency at UT Southwestern. He worked for a year as a hospitalist at Parkland Hospital during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then moved to Nashville in 2021 to start his Medical Oncology fellowship at VUMC and pursue concurrent training in biomedical informatics. He began his postdoctoral master’s degree in 2022 on a National Library of Medicine T15 grant (completed program in 2024), with the goal to develop cancer informatics tools that leverage the large amount of digital data in cancer care to improve patient outcomes.
Matthew S. Krantz, MD, is a postdoctoral research fellow at VUMC pursuing a master's in Biomedical Informatics. He completed his undergraduate and medical school studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At VUMC, he completed his combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency in 2020 and allergy/immunology fellowship in 2022. He is currently pursuing a MS degree in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University. His primary research interest is leveraging biomedical informatics to study severe immune-mediated drug reactions.
Completed his medical degree in April 2019 from Florida International University. He is a Radiation Oncology Physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Sam is pursuing a Master’s degree (completed his postdoc fellowship in DBMI in 2024).
Parker is a Franklin, TN native who completed his B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia and his Doctor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is currently a General Surgery resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center with plans to pursue fellowship in Pediatric Surgery. Parker is interested in biomedical and clinical informatics with the goals of furthering surgical research in children and improving the perioperative work environment. (Completed DBMI postdoc fellowship in 2024).