Global Health Research Interests: Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery

Countries: Haiti, Kenya

Dr. Harvey is a minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon at VUMC with an interest in global health. She was a Medical Scholar at Vanderbilt University Medical School and spent a year in Mozambique studying bleach liquefaction for sputum samples in TB diagnostics at rural health posts. She received a Master in Public Health degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She has also mentored in ultrasound techniques in rural West Nepal. She completed the Global Health Effectiveness Program at the Harvard School of Public Health during her OBGYN residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Recent endeavors include working with a group from the OBGYN department to design gynecologic laparoscopy training in Haiti. She has an interest in rural health, surgical delivery and education in low- and middle-income countries, and health policy.

Dr. Rohde has interests in global health, education, patient experience, and medical ethics. He currently serves as the Director of the Division of Global Emergency Medicine whose 7 faculty and 1 fellow focus their efforts on a longstanding emergency medicine development project in Guyana, South America. In the Vanderbilt Adult ED, Dr. Rohde is the physician Director for Patient Experience, working closely with the Patient Relations team to advocate for patient centered care. Other projects have included his time as a Vanderbilt Stahlman Scholar for Bioethics and Society, during which his project explored the sources of moral distress in the hospital emergency department. He also served as a Master Clinical Teacher for the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.

Dr. Rohde is a graduate of the University of Texas Medical School in San Antonio. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt and then served as Chief Resident. After leaving Vanderbilt for Houston Texas where he combining the practice of community Emergency Medicine with an academic role as Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Dr. Rohde returned to Vanderbilt to join the faculty in 2005.

Dr. Denton leads a research team in the Denton Laboratory, with a primary focus on developing small-molecule probes for members of the inward rectifier family of potassium (Kir) channels, which play key physiological roles in cardiac, neuronal, endocrine, and epithelial cell function. An emerging body of genetic evidence suggests that certain members of the Kir channel family represent novel drug targets for hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, secretory diarrhea and pain.

The Denton Laboratory works closely with researchers in Vanderbilt's High-throughput Screening Center for GPCRs, Ion Channels and Transporters, and the Center for Accelerated Probe Development to deploy a National Institutes of Health-funded drug discovery campaign directed toward the founding member of the Kir channel family and putative diuretic target Kir1.1. This work is expected to provide critically needed pharmacological tools with which to probe the structure, integrative physiology, and therapeutic potential of clinically important inward rectifying potassium channels.

Education
PhD, Dartmouth Medical School 
MS, BS, University of Central Arkansas