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.
John A. Graves, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he holds appointments in the Department of Preventive Medicine and the Department of Medicine. He is also an affiliate of the Institute of Medicine and Public Health and the Center for Health Services Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Graves' research spans the intersection of health policy, health economics, statistics, and health services research. His primary research focus is on developing, implementing, and evaluating health care reforms at the state and federal levels. In addition, his current research portfolio also includes projects on insurance dynamics, microsimulation methods for state and federal budgeting, and estimating the returns to medical spending in the United States.
Education
PhD, Harvard University
B.A., Sewanee, University of the South
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
Research in Dr. Kirabo’s laboratory focuses on understanding the interaction between oxidative stress and inflammation in the genesis of hypertension and kidney disease and how excess dietary salt and the gut microbiome play a role. She was the first to show that hypertension leads to activation of antigen-presenting dendritic cells and demonstrated that this is superoxide and isolevuglandin mediated. Dr. Kirabo is a fellow of the American Heart Association and has served on committees for the AHA, on AHA study sections, and on editorial boards of Hypertension and Current Hypertension Reports. She has given numerous invited lectures nationally and internationally and has received several awards from the AHA and the American Physiological Society (APS). The AHA and NIH NHLBI funds her research.
Education
PhD, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
DVM, Makere University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
MSc, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota
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