Chase J. Webber, DO, is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. As an academic hospitalist and VUSM Master Clinical Teacher, Dr. Webber has a special interest in the education of residents and medical students. He serves as co-director of the "How Doctors Think" Clinical Reasoning course for VUSM medical students. He received the Outstanding Preceptor Inpatient Award in 2020 and the Hugh J. Morgan Teaching Award for Best Faculty Teacher (VA) from the Internal Medicine Housestaff in 2021. His research interests include clinical reasoning, microlearning, and narrative medicine, and he is a member of the Gold Humanism Honors Society. Dr. Webber grew up in Middle Tennessee and is a graduate of Brentwood High School. He completed his BA in English and German literature at Tufts University in Boston, where he was a Tisch College Public Service and Citizenship Scholar. He attended medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and then in 2014 returned to New England for his residency in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in 2017.
Brent Savoie, MD, JD, is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in the Department of Radiology and is the Section Chief of Cardiothoracic Imaging for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an affiliate faculty member at the Vanderbilt Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).
Dr. Savoie is a co-founder of Primeros Pasos, a community health program serving communities in Western Guatemala with preventive and curative medical services since 2002. At Primeros Pasos, he participated in the design and implementation of clinical care, health education, and nutrition programs. The clinic serves as a clinical rotation site for Guatemalan and foreign medical students. Vanderbilt medical students have participated in rotations at the clinic since 2004. Prior to working in Guatemala, Dr. Savoie has conducted research and participated in service initiatives in South Africa, Tanzania, and the Dominican Republic.
Brent has published on topics related to health and human rights law – focusing on the impact of intellectual property law on access to pharmaceuticals and medical technology. As part of his research in this area he worked as a legal fellow with Physicians for Human Rights.
Immediately before returning to Vanderbilt, Brent worked at Evolent Health where he partnered with U.S.-based health systems in the design and implementation of initiatives to improve population health outcomes.
Dr. Savoie earned a MD and BA from Vanderbilt University, and also holds a JD with a focus on health and human rights law from the University of Virginia where he was a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Graduate Fellow. He is proficient in Spanish and French.
Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. After growing up in Nashville and working at the Comprehensive Care Center during his summer vacations in high school, Peter received his BA in biology from Yale University and worked as a research assistant and coordinator in the epidemiology/outcomes unit of the Center For AIDS Research at Vanderbilt from 2006 through 2010. He received an ScM in Epidemiology (Infectious Diseases), an MHS in Biostatistics and PhD in Epidemiology (General Epidemiology & Methods) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Rebeiro's research focuses on quantifying measurement error, assessing quality of care, and analyzing spatial and contextual factors related to the HIV Continuum of Care and TB treatment outcomes in North, Central, and South America. He is continuing his collaboration with the epidemiology/outcomes group here, and he now also works with the Caribbean, Central and South American Network for HIV Epidemiology (CCASAnet) and the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD) of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium, as well as the Regional Prospective Observational Research for TB (RePORT)-Brazil cohort. He also directs the Vanderbilt Epidemiology PhD program.
After completing her PhD in Medicinal Chemistry at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, in 2012, Leigh Ann spent two years with Vanderbilt as a post-doctoral fellow in clinical pharmacology before taking a position as a research and development chemist for the CDC in Atlanta. Returning to Nashville once again, she first worked as a research scientist for Aegis before returning to VUMC in 2020 as a Senior Project Manager in VICTR. Leigh Ann joined DBMI in January 2024 as a Senior IT Project Manager.
Ketan Jadhav is a data professional who helps organizations bridge the gap between data and decisions. He received his Master's degree in Analytics from Northeastern University and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Technology. Prior to joining Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he worked at various global and regional firms in biomedical, IT, and finance industries.
GitHub: https://github.com/ketanmj
Dr. James Cimino became the inaugural director of the Informatics Institute at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 2015 and then inaugural chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science in 2024. Prior to UAB, he was on faculty in Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Columbia University for 20 years, followed by 7 years as Director of the Laboratory for Informatics Development at the NIH Clinical Center and the National Library of Medicine. He is Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American College of Physicians, a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and winner of the American Medical Informatics Association’s Morris F. Collen Award for Excellence. He was appointed Adjoint Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center on November 1, 2023.
Research interests: Medical concept representation, controlled vocabulary, biomedical informatics, medical decision making
UAB Email: jamescimino@uabmc.edu
Dr. Tkaczyk is a graduate of the MD/PhD program at the University of Michigan. He has a PhD in electrical engineering under the pedigree of Nobel Laureate Gerard Mourou. Dr. Tkaczyk's post-doctoral training in medical device design at the University of Tartu Institute of Physics was supported by the Fullbright and Whitaker awards. He is active in the leadership of several conferences and international working groups related to artificial intelligence and dermatologic imaging technologies.
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