Vanderbilt Human Research Protection Program
Health Sciences Committee 3 – Institutional Review Board
OHRP Registration Identification – IRB00002125
The Health Sciences Committee 3 meets every Tuesday of the month at 11:00AM. Meeting locations are subject to change. Please call the VHRPP office to confirm meeting location (322-2918).
Effective – July 1, 2025
VOTING MEMBERS (9)
Neeraja Peterson, M.D. - Chair
Walter Dehority, M.D. - Vice Chair
Spencer DesAutels, MLIS - Vice Chair
Robert Anderson, DNP
James Jackson, PsyD
Kimberly Towers, BS
Carolyn Rambo, BA
Brent Rexer, M.D., Ph.D.
Emmanuel Volanakis, MD
Internal Medicine
Pediatric Infectious Disease
Knowledge management
Pediatric Medicine
Psychology
Law Enforcement, Community Member (NS, NA)
Business, German, Community Member (NS, NA)
Hematology/Oncology
Pediatric Hematology, Oncology
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Alexander Agthe, MD PhD - Neonatology
Bret Alvis, M.D. - Critical Care/ Anesthesiology
Mallory Blasingame, MA, MSIS - Library Sciences
Jessika Boles, PhD, CCLS - Educational Psychology, Child Life
Jennifer Bounds - Homemaker, Community Member (NS, NA)
Naweed Chowdhury, MD - Otolaryngology
Ciaran Considine, Ph.D. - Neurology, Cognitive Disorders
Mistey Cook, BS - Public Relations, Community Member (NS)
Elizabeth Davis, M.D. - Hematology, Oncology
Manus Donahue, Ph.D. - Radiology, Neurology
Stephany Duda, Ph.D. - Biomedical Informatics
Jennifer Gaddy, PhD - Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology
Elizabeth Harris, MSEdu, BS Mech Eng, BS PhySci - Prisoner Representative, Community Member (NS)
Brenton Harrison, BBA - Business, Community Member (NS, NA)
Christopher Hughes, MD - Anesthesiology, Critical Care
Natalia Jimenez-Truque, Ph.D. - Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Lani Kajihara-Liehr, DNP - Pediatrics, Nursing
Taneya Koonce, MSLS, MPH - Information Sciences, Public Health
Poppy Krump, MSIS - Information Scientist
Sheila Kusnoor, Ph.D. - Neuroscience/Health Knowledge Information
Jennifer Ledford, PhD - Special Education
Anna Lopez - Prisoner Rep, Community Member (NS, NA)
Sanjay Mohan, MD - Hematology, Oncology
James Muldowney, MD - Cardiology
Harvey Murff, M.D. - Internal Medicine
Helen Naylor, MS - Biochemistry; Informatics
Maria Niarchou, PhD - Genetic Medicine
Michael O'Connor, M.D. - Pediatric Pulmonology
Christopher O'Conor, MD - Pathology
Stephanie Rolsma, MD - Infectious Diseases, Pediatrics
Krutika Patel, MD MBBS - Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Anna Pfalzer, PhD - Neurology
Megan Saylor, PhD - Psychology and Human Development
Jason Slagle, PhD - Human Factors, Organizational Psychology
Kathleen VonWahlde, MJ, BA, CCRP - Otolaryngology/Oncology, Clinical Trial Management
Mary Washington, M.D., Ph.D. - Pathology, Immunology
Joern-Hendrik Weitkamp, MD - Neonatology, Pediatric Infectious Disease
Amy Weitlauf, Ph.D - Pediatric Psychology, Autism
James Wilkinson, MD, MPH - Pediatrics
Jo Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH - Psychiatry, Epidemiology
Gregory Kyle Rybczyk, FNP-BC, CIM, CIP - Infectious Diseases, Nursing