Dr. Seth Scholer is a Professor of Pediatrics. His research has focused on the prevention of child abuse and improving population health. He has developed and successfully implemented a brief, clinic-based assessment tool (Quick Parenting Assessment (QPA)) and an intervention (Play Nicely) to support parents in their use of healthy discipline strategies. Dr. Scholer’s research has implications for reducing rates of many mental and physical health problems associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). In addition, he serves on national advocacy boards and contributes to the development of child health policy in this area.

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Dr. Russell is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at Vanderbilt University, as well as a graduate of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the University of Arizona. Bridging these two disciplines, she has a research and clinical interest in evaluating and treating pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders, particularly functional nausea. Dr. Russell serves as Medical Director of the Pediatric Nausea Clinic, the only clinical and research program in the nation dedicated to evaluating and treating chronic nausea in children. In collaboration with Dr. Lynn Walker's laboratory, she has conducted research describing the short- and long-term morbidity of chronic nausea in adolescents with functional abdominal pain. This research was selected for a platform presentation at Digestive Disease Week in May 2015. She has also been part of a longstanding research collaboration with Dr. Alan Bradshaw’s lab, assessing gastric slow-wave dysrhythmias in children with functional nausea using bioelectric and Biomagnetic measurement tools. The work of this multidisciplinary research group has resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications and posters of distinction.

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Dr. Rose is a Co-director for the Global Health track in the Master of Public Health Program and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics. Her professional passion lies at the intersection of education and health in helping others enhance their skill sets to lead their communities to improved health outcomes. Dr. Rose’s primary research focuses on capacity strengthening programs as well as research colonialism among academic biomedical researchers located in low- and middle-income countries. Working with colleagues in Africa and at the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, she designs evidence-based training programs in mentorship and curriculum development for medical school faculty. At Vanderbilt, Dr. Rose leads global health clinical rotation and research immersion courses for medical and public health students, and she recently helped start a global health program for residents across specialties.

Dr. Christian Rosas-Salazar is a pediatric pulmonologist and physician scientist with expertise in clinical and translational research. The main goal of his research is to identify pre-, peri-, and post-natal risk and protective factors for the development of common childhood respiratory diseases, including bronchiolitis and asthma. In particular, his current scientific program focuses on 1) examining genetic, environmental, sociodemographic, and lifestyle factors that shape the early-life respiratory microbiome, 2) evaluating the role of the early-life respiratory microbiome in the programming of the immune response, the severity of acute viral respiratory infections in infancy, and the origins of pediatric asthma phenotypes, and 3) developing novel interventions to manipulate the early-life respiratory microbiome with the ultimate purpose of preventing acute and chronic lung diseases in children.

Dr. Rosas-Salazar’s multidisciplinary team leverages a broad range of knowledge spanning the fields of epidemiology, microbial ecology, multi-omics, infectious diseases, and pediatric pulmonary medicine. His group uses a combination of patient-oriented research, next-generation sequencing, high-throughput immunoassays, novel bioinformatics, and other state-of-the-art technologies to continue to advance our understanding of the determinants of childhood respiratory health.

Dr. Rosas-Salazar’s prior studies have been published in some of the most important scientific journals, including The Lancet, The American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chest, Thorax, and The Journal of Infectious Diseases. His scientific program has been supported by funds from the Parker B. Francis Fellowship; Vanderbilt University Medical Center; the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes of the National Institutes of Health. Furthermore, his contributions to research have been recognized by honors from the American Thoracic Society, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, among others.

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