Professional Bio
Jane Freedman, MD, is the Gladys Parkinson Stahlman Professor of Cardiovascular Research and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and Physician-in-Chief of Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital.
Dr. Freedman joined Vanderbilt in 2021 as Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute. She served in these positions until she was appointed interim chair of the Department of Medicine in 2023. In December 2024, she was named the tenth chair of VUMC’s Department of Medicine.
In addition to her role as chair, she oversees two research programs. The Freedman-Tanriverdi Lab examines the role of immunity, infection, and inflammation on atherothrombotic disease. The second laboratory, the High-Throughput Biomarker Core, uses high-throughput, nano-chip, and RNA-seq technologies to study gene expression and provide large scale transcriptomic and proteomic translational data for a wide range of clinical and translational projects.
Dr. Freedman is currently Editor-in-Chief for Circulation Research and President of the Association of University Cardiologists, and has served as the Chair of the National American Heart Association Peer Review Committee. She has extensive mentoring experience and has been the principal investigator of three T32 training grants. She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, and the American Clinical and Climatological Association.
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Education
MD - Tufts University, 1989
Internship - Internal Medicine - Massachusetts General Hospital, 1990
Residency - Internal Medicine - Massachusetts General Hospital, 1991
Fellowship - Clinical Fellow in Medicine - Harvard University, 1991
Fellowship - Research Fellow in Medicine - Harvard University, 1994
Fellowship - Clinical Fellow in Cardiology - Brigham & Women's Hospital, 1994
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307