Alana spent her entire life in Lee County, Alabama, before moving to Washington, DC, to attend Howard University. Informed by her undergraduate studies in ancient plague literature as a Latin major and biomedical research experiences, she decided to pursue physician-scientist training. She obtained her MD & PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her research focuses on cardiorenal genetic epidemiology and multi-omic risk prediction. She plans to apply this background to cardiovascular disease prevention. Outside of medicine and research, Alana enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling to new cities, and farming strawberries and other delicious fruits and veggies with her uncle.
PhD - Epidemiology - University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2023
MD - - University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine, 2025
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307