Education
MD - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
BA, Psychology & Brain Sciences - Dartmouth College
Postgraduate Training
Medicine and Pediatrics - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Education
M.D. - University of Alabama
Ph.D. - University of Alabama
B.S., Chemistry - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
B.S., Quantitative Finance - University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Postgraduate Training
Clinical Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Residency Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Chief Resident, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Education
M.D. - Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
M.Ed., George Peabody College
B.S., Psychology and Science Pre-professional studies, University of Notre Dame
Postgraduate training
Chief Resident - Nashville VA Medical Center
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Sabrina Poon received her undergraduate degree from Yale University, her MD from Vanderbilt University, and her MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and completed the Brigham and Women’s Emergency Medicine Health Policy Research and Translation fellowship. Dr. Poon returned to Vanderbilt in 2018 to join the emergency medicine faculty as a K12 Emergency Care Research Scholar. Her research focuses on improving the value of acute care.
Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, MS, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an attending neonatologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He is a graduate of the University of Florida, Florida State University College of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Patrick completed his training in pediatrics, neonatology and health services research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Patrick joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2013. His National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded research focuses on improving outcomes for opioid-exposed infants and women with substance-use disorder and evaluating state and federal drug control policies. He previously served as Senior Science Policy Advisor to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and has testified before Congress on the rising numbers of newborns being diagnosed with opioid withdrawal after birth. He served as an expert consultant for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s development of a Guide to the Management of Opioid-Dependent Pregnant and Parenting Women and Their Children, as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and as a board member on the US Office of Personnel Management’s Multi-State Plan Program Advisory Board.
Dr. Patrick’s awards include the American Medical Association Foundation Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award, the Academic Pediatric Association Fellow Research Award Tennessee Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Early Career Physician of the Year and the Nemours Child Health Services Research Award. His research has been published in leading scientific journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Pediatrics and Health Affairs.
Postgraduate Training
2012 - Chief Resident in Anesthesiology from University of Florida
2013 - Fellowship in Pain Medicine from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University
David A. Edwards, MD PhD is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery and Chief of the Division of Pain Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He oversees and personally cares for patients in several specialty clinics that treat patients for cancer-related pain, chronic pain, operative pain, and high-risk patients admitted to the hospital with pain or substance use disorder. His research is focused on the transitional care of patients in the perioperative period, and the functional recovery of postoperative patients.
Dr. Cody Chastain is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in Loma Linda, CA in 2008 and completed his training in Internal Medicine in 2011 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. After working as a hospitalist for Duke University Health Systems, Dr. Chastain completed subspecialty training in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he subsequently joined faculty in 2014. Dr. Chastain leads the division’s Viral Hepatitis Program, and he actively cares for people living with HIV in the inpatient and outpatient setting. He actively collaborates in research focusing on HIV and viral hepatitis clinical outcomes. Dr. Chastain is an active educator in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education and has received multiple teaching awards. He serves as the Director for Evaluation and Assessment in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and as the Co-Primary Investigator and Viral Hepatitis Project Director for the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center.
Dr. Tyler W. Barrett obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor followed by his doctorate at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed an Emergency Medicine residency and chief resident year at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2005. Dr. Barrett then joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. In 2008, he was awarded an institutional research development grant and obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation degree in 2010. In 2010, Dr. Barrett was awarded a NIH K23 career development award investigating the emergency department management of atrial fibrillation. He has served as a co-investigator on numerous industry and foundation sponsored clinical trials. He is currently supported in part by a CDC/Tennessee Department of Health award for Statewide Opioid Education and a NIDA grant studying Buprenorphine initiation in the emergency department. Dr. Barrett has published more than 130 original manuscripts, journal club reviews and abstracts.
He currently serves as Medical Director and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University. His clinical goals are quality improvement, opioid stewardship, multidisciplinary patient care pathways, and reimbursement related issues. His research goals are to improve the emergency department (ED) use of non-opioid analgesia, management of venous thromboembolism, and risk stratification of ED patients with atrial fibrillation. Dr. Barrett is an Associate Editor and Journal Club Section Editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine. Tyler serves as an Emergency Medicine Team Physician for the Nashville Predators and Vice-President for the Nashville Youth Hockey League. He is actively involved in promoting education about the dangers of opioids among student-athletes.