Tina V. Hartert, M.D., M.P.H.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, Center for Health Services Research
Director, Medical Scholars Program
M.D., Vanderbilt University, 1990 (Medicine)
M.P.H., Vanderbilt University, 1998 (Public Health)

Dr. Hartert’s research focuses on identifying modifiable environmental factors as well as genetic factors that predispose individuals to atopic diseases with the goal of improving outcomes.  In her R01 grant, “Dietary Antioxidants and Incidence of Adult-Onset Asthma,” she tests the hypothesis that dietary antioxidants play a role in the development of asthma, particularly in persons with a family history of atopic disease.  Dr. Hartert is studying the relationship between urinary F2-isoprostanes, as a measure of oxidative stress, and incident asthma, as well as the relationship between serum antioxidants and incident asthma. In addition, she is accruing and studying one of the largest cohorts of mother-infant dyads with bronchiolitis, investigating the etiologic contribution of second-hand smoke exposure to the development and severity of bronchiolitis and asthma. Dr. Hartert and Vanderbilt clinical research scholar Kecia Caroll, M.D., defined racial differences in asthma-related morbidity among 100,000 women.

Recent Publications

Carroll KN, Gebretsadik T, Griffin MR, Dupont WD, Mitchel EF, Wu P, Enrique R, Hartert TV. Maternal asthma and maternal smoking are associated with increased risk of bronchiolitis during infancy. Pediatrics. 2007 119:1104-12.

Arnold DH, Gebretsadik T, Minton PA, Higgins S, Hartert TV. Clinical measures associated with FEV1 in persons with asthma requiring hospital admission. Am J Emerg Med. 2007 25:425-9.

Miller EK, Lu X, Erdman DD, Poehling KA, Zhu Y, Griffin MR, Hartert TV, Anderson LJ, Weinberg GA, Hall CB, Iwane MK, Edwards KM; New vaccine surveillance network.  Rhinovirus-associated hospitalizations in young children. J Infect Dis. 2007 195:773-81.

Singh AM, Moore PE, Gern JE, Lemanske RF Jr, Hartert TV. Bronchiolitis to asthma: a review and call for studies of gene-virus interactions in asthma causation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 175:108-19.

Wu P, Griffin MR, Richardson A, Gabbe SG, Gambrell MA, Hartert TV. Influenza vaccination during pregnancy: opinions and practices of obstetricians in an urban community. South Med J. 2006 99:823-8.

Whalen U, Griffin MR, Shintani A, Mitchel E, Cruz-Gervis R, Forbes BL, Hartert TV. Smoking rates among pregnant women in Tennessee, 1990-2001. Prev Med. 2006 43:196-9.

Venarske DL, Busse WW, Griffin MR, Gebretsadik T, Shintani AK, Minton PA, Peebles RS, Hamilton R, Weisshaar E, Vrtis R, Higgins SB, Hartert TV. The relationship of rhinovirus-associated asthma hospitalizations with inhaled corticosteroids and smoking. J Infect Dis. 2006 193:1536-43.

Enriquez R, Wu P, Griffin MR, Gebretsadik T, Shintani A, Mitchel E, Carroll KN, Hartert TV. Cessation of asthma medication in early pregnancy. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2006 195:149-53.