Professional Bio
André Diedrich, MD, PhD, is a Research Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He studied Medicine and Medical Cybernetics at the Second Medical Institute in Moscow where he earned his MD and received his specialization certificate in Pathophysiology. He defended his PhD in Medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Diedrich was awarded with an external fellowship of the European Space Agency in 1996. He trained in microneurographic techniques and baroreflex testing by Dr. Dwain L. Eckberg at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia from 1996 to 1997.
Dr. Diedrich was member of the International Neurolab Team at the NASA space shuttle mission STS90. He received a fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt from 1997 to 2000. He was awarded with the Paul Dudley White International Scholar for highest ranked abstract submitted from the United States at the Joint Meeting of Hypertension and AHA Scientific Sessions in 2018.
Dr. Diedrich has two patents in smart health care technology for autonomic failure and is a member of American Autonomic Society, associate editor at the Journal of Clinical Autonomic Research and Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience. His research interests include space physiology, cardiovascular research, sympathetic baroreflex, and neuromodulation. He was PI of the Analytical and Phenotyping Core of the Dr. David Robertson’s PPG of Autonomic Research from 2007 to 2016 (P01 HL056693).
Dr. Diedrich received funding from the NIH to develop a Bionic Baroreflex System for Autonomic Failure (R41 AG019576). He and his international collaborator, Dr. Furlan, received funding from Dysautonomia International for the Vagal Stimulation in Postural Tachycardia Syndrome project in 2019. He is PI of the NIH funded Clinical Trial “Autonomic Determinants of Postural Tachycardia Syndrome” (NCT04050410 / R01HL142583).
Publications
Education
Fellowship - Mathematics and Physics - Martin Luther College, 1979
MD - 2nd Medical Institute in Moscow, 1985
PhD - Medicine - Humboldt State University, 1991
Fellowship - Clinical Pharmacology - Vanderbilt University, 2000
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307