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

Global Health Research Interests: Biological Sciences, Cardiology, Heart Disease and Stroke, Clinical Trials, Education and Training (Capacity Building), Heart Disease and Stroke, HIV/AIDS, Immunology, Nephrology, Nutrition

Countries: Uganda, Zambia

Global Health Research Interests: Community Health, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health

Countries: Guyana, Kenya

Dr. Lindsey Zamora has had a longstanding interest in global health and cultural studies, beginning even before she entered the field of medicine. She earned her undergraduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Florida, where she had the opportunity to study abroad in Tanzania and Brazil. Following this, she completed medical school and residency training at the University of Florida and Baylor College of Medicine. During her time in medical school, she led a mission trip to the Dominican Republic, providing healthcare in rural areas of the country. While in residency, she participated in a rotation in Zambia, collaborating with midwives and leading workshops on safe delivery practices.

After completing her residency, Dr. Zamora pursued a Global Women’s Health fellowship through University Hospitals/Case Medical Center, in partnership with the University of Guyana and Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation. During her fellowship, she played a key role in establishing Guyana’s first ObGyn training program, which was aimed at training local specialists and leaders in obstetrics and gynecology to reduce the country’s maternal mortality rate. Dr. Zamora lived in Guyana for two years during this fellowship and was instrumental in graduating the country’s first specialists in ObGyn. Following her fellowship, she returned to the United States, where she served as an Assistant Residency Program Director while also earning her Master of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Since joining the faculty at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Zamora has taken on the role of Head of the ObGyn Section for Global Women’s Health and serves as the lead for the residency’s distinction pathway in Global and Community Health. She is also the co-director of the Vanderbilt Collaborative for Global Health Excellence, a multidisciplinary program designed to equip postgraduate learners with essential skills for global health work. Additionally, she acts as a faculty liaison between the ObGyn department and Siloam Health, a community health center in Nashville that serves the local refugee population. Dr. Zamora’s global health interests include reducing maternal mortality, promoting global health education, building capacity in low- and middle-income countries, and providing care for immigrant and refugee populations.

Education

MD, University of Florida
MPH, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Dr. Joseline (Josie) Haizel-Cobbina is the Program Manager at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. She works with Dr Michael C. Dewan and the Vanderbilt Global Neurosurgery Program (VGNP). Prior to joining VIGH, she worked as an International Health Fellow with Minnesota Department of Health, where she worked on the CDC’s Malaria Prevention Project to reduce the incidence of imported malaria cases among the immigrant and refugee population in Minnesota.

Originally from Ghana, Josie received her bachelor’s degree in Human Biology and her medical degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 2015. She worked as a medical officer in low-resource settings for three years before moving to the United States. She obtained her master's degree in Public Health Administration and Policy in 2020. Josie’s clinical and public health interests are in neurosurgery which well align with her work as the Program Manager for the VGNP.