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.
She is a graduate of Brown University (BA with honors), Vanderbilt University Medical School (MD and MPH), completed an internal medicine residency and Osler chief residency at Johns Hopkins, and a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Hartert is a respiratory epidemiologist whose research focus is 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. Her research has been continuously funded by the US NIH for more than 20 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 US asthma management guidelines. In 2015 Dr. Hartert 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.
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Education
MD - Vanderbilt University, 1990
Internship - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins University, 1991
Residency - Internal Medicine - Johns Hopkins University, 1993
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