| Name | Training Period | Program | Research Project Focus | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valerie Welty | 2016-present | Biostatistics | Measuring evidence; Statistical methods for inference (with a focus on large scale inference); Clinical prediction; Empirical Bayes approaches; Machine learning from a statistical perspective | PhD student |
| Caroline Godfrey | 2021-present | T32 Research Fellowship | Lung cancer screening; Lung nodule classification; Surgical outcomes | T32 Research Fellowship/General Surgery Resident |
| Michael Betti | 2021-present | Human Genetics | Genetic epidemiology; Human population genetics; Mechanisms of gene regulation; Machine learning applications with respect to big data analysis | PhD student |
| Adoma Manful | 2022-present | Epidemiology | Health services research; Health disparities; Social determinants of health | PhD student |
| David Xiao | 2022-present | T32 Research Fellowship | Lung nodule classification; Surgical outcomes; Healthcare Disparities | T32 Research Fellowship/General Surgery Resident |
| Name | Training Period | Program | Research Project Focus | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Megan Hollister Murray | 2018-2022 | Biostatistics | Second-generation p-values for equivalence testing and study planning, and flexible false discovery rate computation for classical p-values | Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals |
| Cato Milder | 2019-2022 | Epidemiology |
Individual and Pooled Analysis of Ionizing Radiation Effects in Department of Energy Uranium Worker Cohorts Operational Between 1942-1985 |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI |
| Hannah Marmor | 2020-2022 | T32 Research Fellowship | Lung cancer screening | General Surgery Resident, SUNY Upstate Medical University |
| Victoria Martucci | 2016-2021 | Human Genetics | COPD and genetic epidemiology | Pediatrics-Medical Genetics Resident, University of Colorado School of Medicine |
| Rebecca Irlmeier | 2020-2021 | Biostatistics | Survival analysis; Genomics | |
| Diane Haddad | 2018-2020 | T32 Research Fellowship | Health Disparities | General Surgery Resident, VUMC |
| Maren Shipe | 2018-2020 | T32 Research Fellowship | Prediction modeling; Biomarker analysis | General Surgery Resident, VUMC |
| Amelia Maiga | 2015-2018 | General Surgery Residency/VA Quality Scholars Program | Validation of the TREAT model | General Surgery Resident, VUMC |
| Christina Saunders | 2015-2018 | Biostatistics | Mediation analysis | Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University |
| Sarah Mercaldo | 2013-2017 | Biostatistics | Dealing with missing data | Instructor of Radiology/Statistics, Harvard Medical School |
| Carissa Jones | 2014-2017 | Human Genetics | Genetic ancestry and lung cancer genetics | Program Specialist for Personalized Medicine, Sarah Cannon Cancer Center |
| Timothy O'Brien | 2015-2017 | Human Genetics | Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics | Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center |
| Brittany Hollister | 2015-2017 | Human Genetics | SES in EMR and GxE Interactions | Health Disparities Fellow, NHGRI |
| Ashley Morgan | 2012-2015 | Medical School | Quality of care in the SCCS and Variation in FDG-PET accuracy to diagnose lung cancer of pulmonary nodules: A meta-analysis | Pediatric Resident, Cincinnati Children's Hospital |
| Tyler Davis | 2012-2015 | Medical School | Cost-Effectiveness of Initial Diagnostic Strategies for Solitary Pulmonary Nodules | Emergency Medicine Resident, San Antonio |
| Patrick Kelly | 2012-2014 | Medical School | Predictors of prolonged length of stay following single- or multiple-lobectomy in lung cancer | Neurosurgery Resident, VUMC |
| Stephen Deppen | 2009-2014 | Epidemiology | Regional variation of FDG-PET accuracy for diagnosis of lung cancer: Implications for a predictive model | Associate Professor Research, Vanderbilt |
| Jamii St. Julien | 2010-2012 | General Surgery Residency | Obesity and operative times; Factors influencing resident career choices – a focus on minority underrepresentation in academic surgery; Radiolabeled DOTATATE-guided resections of lung cancer; Simulation in cardiac surgery training | Surgical Oncology Fellow, M.D. Anderson, TX |
| Carol Callaway-Lane | 2009-2011 | School of Nursing | Timeliness and Accuracy of Diagnosis for Veterans Presenting with Signs of Lung Cancer | VUMC Nursing Faculty |
| Francys Verdail | 2009-2011 | Medical School | Radiolabled DOTATANE guided resections of lung cancer | Resident Physician Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| Gabriella Andrade | 2009-2011 | Medical School | ACOSOG pulmonary nodule imaging project | 3rd Year Pediatric Resident at Boston Children’s Hospital |
| James Isbell | 2008-2010 | General Surgery Residency | Prediction model for pulmonary nodules | Thoracic Surgical Oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Jodi Weinstein | 2009 | Medical School | Are futile thoracotomies futile? | Medical Student (IV) |
| Aaron Dawes | 2008-2009 | Medical School | Pulmonary Nodule Cohort | General Surgery Resident, UCLA, RWJ Research Fellow |