Professional Bio
Tina Hartert, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine, and Assistant Vice President for Translational Science. Dr. Hartert is a graduate of Brown University (BA with honors) and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (MD and MPH). She completed her clinical training in internal medicine and chief residency at Johns Hopkins, and a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Hartert is a clinical-translational scientist whose research program focuses on the developmental origins of asthma and allergic diseases. She is the Director of the Center for Asthma Research, a multidisciplinary clinical-translational research group conducting large-scale human studies coupled with collaborative mechanistic studies to identify modifiable exposures conferring enhanced susceptibility to asthma and allergic diseases, establishing multi-level evidence for causal risk factors for asthma development. Collectively, her program aims to translate etiologic insights into prevention strategies, policy changes and risk-targeted interventions across the life course. She is the PI of several ongoing birth cohorts, including INSPIRE and WAVES, as well as the site PI of several national consortia cohorts, including ECHO, HEROS, CADRE and CANOE.
Her research has been continuously funded by the U.S. NIH for more than 25 years, as well as the World Health Organization, and her research contributions have been recognized by election to the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and Association of American Physicians (AAP). She has served as an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, as a member of NHLBI council, as the co-chair of the ATS Vaccines and Immunization working group, and a member of the NIH National Asthma Expert Panel establishing U.S. asthma management guidelines. Dr. Hartert is passionate about mentoring the next generation of scholars and in 2015 she was honored with the inaugural Vanderbilt award in research mentoring of clinical-translational scientists, and in 2019 she received the award for mentoring post-doctoral fellows.
Current funding (2026):
NIH U19 AI 095227 NIH/NIAID Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research
PI: Hartert
Title: Host and Viral Determinants of Infant and Childhood Allergy and Asthma
NIH R01 HL173480
Co-PD: Wu / Hartert
Title: Establishing critical time windows of infant RSV infection in the causal relationship of RSV and childhood asthma
NIH UH3 OD 035516
Co-PD: Hartert / Bacharier
Title: Identifying asthma phenotypes and endotypes to develop targeted treatment and prevention strategies for childhood asthma
Cy Pres Settlement Fund
Co-PD: Hartert and Vandenbergh
Title: Uptake and Effects of Electric Vehicles in Urban and Rural Areas in the Southeast
NIH UG3 OD 035517
Co-PD: Hartert / Osmundson
Title: Delineating the severity-dependent and age-dependent effects of RSV infection on asthma risk
NIH U54AG089326
PI: Das S / Co-I: Hartert
Title: Vanderbilt-coordinated human Virome Collaborative Center (V2C2)
NIH U24AI179612
PI: Gern / Site PI: Hartert
Title: Children's Allergy and Asthma Data Repository (CADRE)
NIH/NIAID R01 AI143710
PI: Wu / Co-I: Hartert
Title: The effectiveness of RSV immunoprophylaxis on the short- and long-term respiratory morbidity in children with Down syndrome
NIH R01HL171731
PI: Rosas-Salazar / Co-I: Hartert
Title: Effect of infant antibiotics on the development of the early-life airway and gut microbiome and risk of childhood asthma
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Education
MD - Vanderbilt University, 1990
Internship - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Residency - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins University, 1993
Residency - Chief Resident - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1995
MPH - Public Health - Vanderbilt University, 1998
Fellowship - Allergy Pulmonary Critical Care - Vanderbilt University, 1998
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307