Drs. Dana Janssen, Thomas Doyle, and George Nicholson founded Influent Medical, LLC, a biomedical startup with a mission of developing devices for congenital heart disease.

Dr. Jabs' research interests include treatments and complications of chronic kidney disease in children including outcomes of dialysis and transplantation.

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Dr. Hunter has a love for mentoring, teaching, advocating, and the overall wellbeing of children and their families. She has lead the Food Insecurity Taskforce, which began a screening and connection to resources program in the Primary Care Clinic. She supervises residents at the Vanderbilt Primary Care Clinic and Vanderbilt Newborn Nursery. She also directs the Community Health and Advocacy Rotation for PGY-2 residents and the Social Medicine and Advocacy Academic Community for the pediatric residency program at Vanderbilt.

Dr. Hunley is a clinician in the Division of Pediatric Nephrology & Hypertension where he cares for kidney related diseases in kids from neonates to young adults. His interests include glomerular disease, Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, kidney stones and pediatric hypertension including obesity -related. His research endeavors are directed at better understanding and treating these entities. Dr. Hunley is the Vanderbilt Pediatrics site Principal Investigator for CureGN, (Cure Glomerulonephropathy; www.CureGN.org) a multicenter National Institute of Health (NIH)-funded consortium working collaboratively to recruit and follow a large cohort of participants with Minimal Change Disease, FSGS, Membranous Nephropathy, and IgA Nephropathy. An underlying hypothesis is that different disease mechanisms can result in similar pathologic and clinical phenotypes, but different disease courses. Identifying and characterizing these mechanisms will have broad influence on diagnostic classification, accurate prognostication, definition of patient cohorts for clinical trials, and identification of individualized therapies.

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Dr. Hundley's research has included clinical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), sleep disturbance in children with ASD, and genetic linkages to multiple developmental disorders.

Dr. Hummell is retired from clinical practice and is no longer accepting patients. She provides consultative service to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Program.

Dr. Howard has extensive experience working in international settings and in clinical and observational global health research. Her current research focuses on pneumococcal colonization dynamics in young children, and the impact of these dynamics, as well as the impact of viral and bacterial vaccines, on the development of pneumonia and respiratory illnesses in children living in rural and resource-limited settings.

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