Dr. Tina Hartert received her BA with honors from Brown University, and her MD and MPH from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and chief residency at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and her Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellowship at Vanderbilt. She is the Lulu H Owen Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Director of the Center for Asthma Research and serves the institution in the role of Assistant Vice President for Translational Science. She is a member of the scientific and medical honors societies, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, and was elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP). She has received awards for teaching and mentoring, including the inaugural recipient of the Research Mentoring Award in Translational Science. Her research interests include asthma, respiratory viral infections, vaccine-preventable pulmonary diseases, epidemiology, primary disease prevention, and pulmonary medicine.