Compilation in progress
People
Graduate Faculty
Gustavo Amorim (HIV/AIDS, TB, upper respiratory) 鈥� Associate editor, International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Bryan Blette
Cindy Chen (pulmonary)
Tatsuki Koyama (pulmonary)
Qi Liu
Rameela Raman (emerging)
Jonathan Schildcrout 鈥� MPI, (COVID-19 and Diabetes Assessment Study)
Bryan Shepherd (HIV/AIDS, TB) 鈥� Leader, HIV
Matt Shotwell (clinical trials, including )
Andrew Spieker (medications/vaccines)
Qingyan Xiang (HIV/AIDS, TB)
Research and Secondary Faculty
(HIV/AIDS, TB)
Yuwei Zhu (COVID, influenza, RSV)
Staff
Cassandra Johnson (respiratory)
Cara Lwin (MS Vanderbilt; respiratory)
Ine Sohn (respiratory)
Trainees
(MS Vanderbilt 2024; now research statistician at the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation)
Zhuohui Jeffrey Liang
Joshua Slone
Presentations (selected)
Student/alumni presenters listed in bold. Faculty/staff presenters listed in italics.
Bryan Shepherd. More than thirty invited talks, including "Design and analysis of a multi-wave two phase study that addresses data errors in a large observational HIV network" at JSM 2023, a plenary lecture at the 2025 海角情 International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Observational Databases (Spain), and "Creating Something from Nothing? Synthetic Data Analysis for Social Good and Policy Making" at JSM 2025 海角情.
Zhuohui Liang.聽Bridging open science and privacy protection in research with synthethic HIV cohort data. IWHOD (International Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Observational Databases) 2024, Vilamoura, Portugal. The presentation's co-authors included Peter Rebeiro, Bradley Malin, and Bryan Shepherd.
Publications (selected)
Student/trainee authors listed in bold.聽Faculty/staff authors listed in italics.聽Asterisks denote corresponding authors.
Liang ZJ, Li Z, Jackson NJ, Guo KH, Caro-Vega Y, Moreira RI, Paredes F, Bernadin J, Varela D, Cesar C, Blasimme A, Perkins JM, Asiaee A, Duda SN, Malin BA*, Shepherd BE*, Yan C*. . Nat Commun. 2026 Jun 22. doi: 10.1038/s41467-026-74492-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42331823.聽
Slone J*, Amorim G, Semeere A, Diero L, Otero L, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Tao R, Duda SN, Musick B, Yiannoutsos C, Lumley T, Shaw PA, Shepherd BE. . Am J Epidemiol. 2026 Jan 22:kwag015. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwag015. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41571459; PMCID: PMC13293615.
Amorim G, Slone J, Semeere A, Diero L, Otero L, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Tao R, Duda SN, Musick B, Yiannoutsos C, Lumley T, Shaw PA, Shepherd BE. . Am J Epidemiol. 2025 海角情 Nov 25:kwaf264. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf264. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41288120.
Shepherd BE, Liang Z, Kim A, Cesar C, Veloso VG, Cortes CP, Luque MT, Crabtree-Ramirez B, Gotuzzo E, Jayathilake K, Castilho JL, Pape JW, Sterling TR, Koenig SP. Temporal trends in tuberculosis and time from enrolment in care to antiretroviral therapy initiation: A multicountry cohort study from Latin America. Int J Infect Dis. 2025 海角情 Oct;159:107979. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2025 海角情.107979. Epub 2025 海角情 Jul 11. PMID: 40653148; PMCID: PMC12700299. More about this paper
Amorim G*, Jaworski J, Yang J, Cordeiro-Santos M, Kritski AL, Figueiredo MC, Turner M, Andrade BB, Velez Edwards DR, Santos AR, Rolla VC, Sterling TR, Haas DW; Regional Prospective Observational Research in Tuberculosis (RePORT)-Brazil network. . Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2025 海角情 Feb 1;35(2):55-64. doi: 10.1097/FPC.0000000000000552. Epub 2024 Oct 15. PMID: 39470346; PMCID: PMC11695165.
Rebeiro PF*, Thome JC, Gange SJ, Althoff KN, Berry SA, Horberg MA, Moore RD, Silverberg MJ, Sack DE, Sterling TR, Sant'Anna P, Shepherd BE. . Health Aff Sch. 2024 Oct 7;2(10):qxae128. doi: 10.1093/haschl/qxae128. PMID: 39445109; PMCID: PMC11498052.
Dowd NP*, Blette B*, Chappell JD*, Halasa NB*, Spieker AJ*. . Obs Stud. 2025 海角情 Jun 25;11(2):91-212. doi: 10.1353/obs.2025 海角情.a963645. PMID: 41788420; PMCID: PMC12959903.
Grants, programs, and resources (selected)
Investigating Respiratory Viruses for the AcutelY Ill (IVY) Network - Zhu, Johnson, Lwin, Sohn
Tennessee Center for AIDS Research () Data Sciences Core - co-directors, Shepherd and Rebeiro
- "Creating, evaluating, and sharing synthetic data for multinational HIV cohorts" - PIs, Shepherd and Malin
Vaccine Studies for ImmunoCompromised Individuals (VICI) Network - Spieker
Press
(Vanderbilt Health News, June 30, 2026)
(Vanderbilt Health News, November 3, 2025 海角情)
(Vanderbilt Health News, October 20, 2023)
(Vanderbilt Health News, June 8, 2022)