Professional Bio
Vivian Siegel, PhD, is a cell biologist, geneticist, an expert in scientific communications, and Research Professor of Medicine in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
She earned her PhD in Genetics from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and completed postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and at UCSF before joining the staff of Cell as a senior editor. She rose through the ranks at Cell, becoming chief editor in 1999, and left in 2003 to help found Public Library of Science. In 2006, she joined Vanderbilt as a Research Professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology and founded the Center for Science Communication.
In 2011, Dr. Siegel joined the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she was Director of Scientific Education and Public Communications and then Director of Education and Outreach, while retaining an adjunct research professor position at Vanderbilt. In 2015, she moved to MIT, where she was a lecturer and communications lead for the Department of Biology. In 2019, she returned to VUMC and here she works primarily with faculty on scientific writing and publishing with a variety of programs including faculty writing groups and 1:1 coaching.
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Education
PhD - Genetics - University of California, San Francisco, 1987
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307