Tina Hartert

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Tina Vivienne Hartert
Alma mater Brown University
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Scientific career
Institutions Vanderbilt University
Johns Hopkins University

Tina Vivienne Hartert is an American physician and the Lulu H. Owen Endowed Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University. She serves as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Translational Science and Director of the Center for Asthma Research. Her research considers asthma and allergic disease. During the COVID-19 pandemic Hartert studied the transmission of coronavirus disease amongst children.

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Early life

Hartert earned her bachelor's degree at Brown University, where she studied English literature and specialised on Pride and Prejudice. [1] [2] Whilst at Brown University she rowed in the women's crew. [3] She moved to Vanderbilt University for her graduate studies, where she worked toward a Master's in Public Health and medical degree. Harteret completed her medical residency at Johns Hopkins University, before returning to Vanderbilt to specialise in pulmonary training and critical care. [2] [4]

Research and career

Asthma is one of the most prevalent non-communicable diseases. Hartert believes that the long-term solutions to the asthma epidemic will be primary (prevent onset before the disease begins) and secondary (reach early diagnosis and prompt treatment) disease prevention. The development of asthma in children is likely due to environmental factors interacting with a susceptible host over the course of a short period between pre- and postnatal development. [5] Hartert studies the predictive factors of asthma development and the causal role of respiratory viral infections. [5] During infancy, the viral pathogens that are the strongest risk factors for asthma are human orthopneumovirus and human rhinovirus. [6] She has shown that people with asthma have an increased risk of invasive infection beyond the respiratory tract. [5] She showed that babies born in Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere had a 30% increased likelihood of suffering from asthma to those born at other times of the year. [7] In 2009 Hartert was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation. [5]

Hartert is Director of the Center for Asthma and Environmental Science Research. [8] She was awarded the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Excellence in Mentoring Translational Scientists Award in 2015. [9]

Hartert is leading a National Institutes of Health research programme into the transmission of coronavirus disease amongst young people. [10] [11] The Human Epidemiology and Response to SARS (HEROS) study started in July 2020. [10] Over six months, HEROs collected data from families every two weeks, looking to capture and track patterns of transmission. [10] It evaluates the differences in outcome between children with and without asthma. [12]

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Personal life

Hartert is married with three children. [13] [4]

References

  1. ↑ Hartert, Tina V (1985). Language and social vision: the search for freedom in pride and prejudice (Thesis). OCLC   549716275.
  2. 1 2 "Tina Hartert, M.D., M.P.H." Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  3. ↑ "Women's Crew". Brown University Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  4. 1 2 "Asthma Research Group | Asthma Research Center". www.vumc.org. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "The American Society for Clinical Investigation" . Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  6. ↑ "Managing the Early Events of Childhood Asthma". HCPLive®. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  7. ↑ "Autumn Babies More Prone to Asthma". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  8. ↑ "Tina V. Hartert, M.D., M.P.H. | Department of Medicine". medicine.vumc.org. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  9. ↑ Snyder, Bill (5 November 2015). "New awards honor contributions to translational research at VUMC". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  10. 1 2 3 "Identity Crisis: Just Who Did James W. Fannin Jr. Think He Was?" . The SHAFR Guide Online. doi:10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim030240011 . Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  11. ↑ Herbers, Kelsey (12 May 2020). "Study to determine rate of novel coronavirus infection in U.S. children". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  12. ↑ Mojica, Adrian (2020-05-05). "Nashville doctor heads national study on children and COVID-19". WZTV. Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  13. ↑ "Dr. Tina Hartert Wed". The New York Times. 1991-10-27. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-07-24.
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