Principal Investigator

Current CVB Lab Members

PhD Students

Undergraduate Students

• Samantha Sedillo, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Ava Wallace, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Alexis Kalamaris, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Anna Day, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Reagan Anderson, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Aydan Kemp, Senior, Biomedical Engineering

• Lily Holder, Junior, Biomedical Engineering 

• Gabe Crye, Junior, Biomedical Engineering 

• Jane Franz, Junior, Biomedical Engineering 

• Carter Richardson, Junior, Biomedical Engineering

CVB Lab Collaborators

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• Dr. Michael Froehler,  Neurointerventionalist and Director of the VUMC Cerebrovascular Program 

UT Biomedical Engineering

• Dr. Colleen Crouch, Assistant Professor

UT Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Dr. Stephanie TerMaath, Associate Professor

UT Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Dr. Dayakar Penumadu, Fred N. Peebles Professor and IAMM Chair of Excellence

• Dr. Haochen Li, Assistant Professor

UT College of Nursing

• Dr. Jennifer Smith, Assistant Professor

UT Medical Center

• Dr. James Killeffer, Neurosurgeon and Chief of the UTMC Division of Neurosurgery

• Dr. Morgan Randall, Interventional Cardiologist

• Amanda Crosby, Chief of Perfusion

• Keith Atwell, Perfusionist

UT Health Science Center

• Dr. Jason Johnson, Pediatric Cardiologist

Politecnico di Milano

• Dr. Jose Felix Rodriguez Matas,  Professor and PI of the Computational Biomechanics Laboratory

• Dr. Mahesh Nagargoje ,  Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow

MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Dr. Rahul Sheth,  Interventional Radiologist

Penn State University

• Dr. Keefe Manning,  Professor and PI of the Artificial Heart Lab 

CVB Lab Alumni

• Nafis Arefin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cardiovascular Pathomechanics Laboratory at Texas A&M

• Alexandra Ritter, Strategic Product Specialist, KLS Martin Group

• Dylan Fuentala, Associate Field Clinical Specialist - Electrophysiology Division, Abbott

• Sara Grady, Masters Student at Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering

• Jacob Edkin

• Sam Keith

• Fellah Mohsun, Quality Engineer, DENSO

• Sarah Shore, Marketing Specialist, ChoiceSpine

• Alyson Matushek, Mechanical Engineer, STERIS

• Jake Lockhart, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering Program at Penn State University

• Allison Cripps

• Kelsie Hartley, Laboratory Technician, Pain Treatment Centers of America - Little Rock, Arkansas

• Ethan Connor, Neuro and Biologics Product Manager, KLS Martin Group

• Jordis Blackburn, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering Program at Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University

• Tony George, Thoracic Reconstruction Product Manager, KLS Martin Group 

• Noah Robison, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Minnesota

• Omar Elkhayyat, Medical Student, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine

• Heidi Seuss, PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering Program at UTK

• Eli Christoph, PhD Student, Comparative and Experimental Medicine Program at UTK

• Eleni Golloshi, Regulatory Affairs Associate, MCRA

• Caitlyn Kicza, Physician Assistant Master's Student, University of Maryland Baltimore Graduate School

• Amy Chandler, Perfusionist, Emory University Hospital

• Nicole Beautz, Senior CRM Field Clinical Specialist, Boston Scientific

• Nolan Corbitt, Medical Student, University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine

• Breanna Poteat, Dual Orthotics and Prosthetics Resident, SRT National Prosthetics Center