Professional Bio
Jane Freedman, MD, is the Gladys Parkinson Stahlman Professor of Cardiovascular Research and Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and Interim Physician-in-Chief of Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital. Prior to assuming the interim chair role in December 2023, she was the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Freedman is the current Editor-in-Chief for Circulation Research, and has also served as the Chair of the National American Heart Association Peer Review Committee. She has extensive mentoring experience and has been the PI of three T32 Training Grants.
She currently oversees two research programs. The first is a basic science laboratory that examines the role of immunity, infection, and inflammation on atherothrombotic disease. The second facility 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.
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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