Tammy Wingo, PhD, MBA
Consultant/Researcher, Vanderbilt Center for Better Health
tammy.wingo@vanderbilt.edu
615.322.3525

Tammy Wingo serves as a consultant and researcher for the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health. In this role, she supports the Center in fulfilling its mission of accelerating change in health care. She aids in project management, session design, and is heavily involved in research efforts as requested and/or needed by the client.

Before joining the Vanderbilt Center for Better Health, she worked as an electrophysiologist and researcher in the lab of the Vice Chancellor for Medical Research at Vanderbilt where she focused on determination of new mechanisms behind sodium channel gating and structural predictions of proteins. Her work has led to the discovery of new potential drug-acting sites that may be targeted by newly designed anti-arrhythmic agents. Her discoveries were first published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology in 2004. Prior to her work at Vanderbilt, Dr. Wingo worked with the Department of Defense through the Medical Command unit in collaboration with Princeton University and Cambridge University . She served as a project leader over a Bio-Defense Pathogen Database project founded on new structural prediction methodology, and also worked heavily on online Military Medical Service Request projects.

Tammy received her PhD in Pharmacology from Vanderbilt University Medical School , and her MBA from Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management.