VIGH Faculty & Staff

Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD

• Director - Institute for Global Health
• Amos Christie Chair in Global Health
• Professor of Pediatrics
• Professor of Medicine
• Professor of Preventive Medicine
• Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Alfredo Vergara, MS, PhD

• Deputy Director - Institute for Global Health
• Assistant Professor - Preventive Medicine

Donald Lee, MS, MBA

Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH

Carol Etherington, MSN, RN, FAAN

• Assistant Professor - School of Nursing
• Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health and Society

Julián Hillyer, PhD

• Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

Yujiang Jia, MD, DrPH

• Research Assistant, Professor of Pediatrics
• Division of Infectious Diseases

Eric-Jan Manders, PhD

• Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

D. Troy Moon, MD, MPH

• Assistant Professor - Pediatrics
• Div. of Infectious Disease
• In-Country Clinical Director, Friends in Global Health, LLC Mozambique

Mark W. Newton, MD

• Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology

Andy M. Norman, MD

• Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Han-Zhu Qian, MD, PhD

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center

Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe, MBBS, MPH, DrPH

• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
• Division of Infectious Diseases

William C. Wester, MD

Laurence J. Zwiebel, PhD

• Professor of Biological Sciences and Pharmacology
• Center for Molecular Neuroscience
• Programs in Developmental Biology & Genetics
• Institutes for Chemical Biology & Global Health

Syed Asad Ali, MBBS

Carolyn Audet, PhD

• Research Assistant Professor
• Department of Preventive Medicine

Kayvon Modjarrad, MD, PhD

Raymond Burk, MD

• Professor of Medicine
• VICC Member
• Researcher

Richard T. D'Aquila, MD

• Director, Center for AIDS Research
• Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine
• Professor of Medicine
• Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Alfred L. George, MD

• Grant W. Liddle Professor of Medicine
• Director, Division of Genetic Medicine
• Associate Chairman for Science Education
• VICC Member
• Researcher

David W. Haas, MD

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
• Director, Vanderbilt AIDS Clinical Trials Center

Daniel R. Masys, MD

• Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics

Xiao-Ou Shu, MD

• Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Public Health)
• VICC Member
• Cancer Epidemiologist

Timothy R. Sterling, MD, MPH

• Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University

Scott M. Williams, PhD

• Associate Professor of Medicine
• Associate Professor of Pediatrics
• Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

Wei Zheng, MD, PhD, MPH

• Director Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center
• Director Molecular Epidemiology
• Ingram Professor of Cancer Research
• Professor of Medicine

Meredith Bortz

• Editorial Assistant

Janeen Burlison

• Program Manager

Holly Cassell, MPH

• Sr Program Manager
• Vanderbilt CIDRZ AIDS International Training and Research Program
• HIV Prevention Trials Network
• Vanderbilt-Meharry Center for AIDS Research

Sue Gibson

• Office Assistant

Ann F. Green

Kevin Harvey

• Web Developer

Toni Hill, BS

• Sr. Executive Secretary to Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD

Sheri Tyler Kimble

Cathie Klassen

• Accounting Assistant

Julie Lankford, BA

• Country Desk Officer

Catherine Lem, MPH

• Sr. Program Manager
• Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars & Fellows Support Center

Olivia Manders, MA

• Marketing Coordinator

Donna Miller

• Grants Manager

Anne M. Neubecker

• Administrative Officer

Janet Nicotera, RN, BSN

• QA and Research Coordinator, VIGH
• Clinical Research Nurse Trainer, GHESKIO

Tiffany Patterson

Bea Smith

Aditi Thite, MS

Judy Thompson

• Administrative Assistant (FICRS-F)

Ronan Walker, BFA

• Program Coordinator, FICRS-F Support Center at Vanderbilt

Yasmine Subhi Ali

Charles Howell

Janet Jones

Richard Light

Tom Livers

Jeffrey C. Lynch

Jena Nardella

Ed Nelson

George Paine

Sandra Roberts

Susan Short Jones

Richmond Williams

Alan R. Yuspeh, J.D., M.B.A.

• Senior Vice President, Ethics, Compliance and Corporate Responsibility

Abdul Momin Kazi, MBBS, MPH