Whitney D. Gannon, MSN, ACNP-BC, is an Associate in Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is also a MICU adult acute care nurse practitioner, and coordinator of ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) services in the adult MICU. She works to establish ECMO protocols and coordinating ECMO training for nurses, other nurse practitioners, and faculty physicians. In addition, she participates in research projects in the MICU regarding implementation of ECMO services and addresses other relevant research questions. Ms. Gannon received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and received her master’s degree in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She went on to receive a second master’s degree in epidemiology from Columbia University in New York. Prior to coming to VUMC, Ms. Gannon worked as an acute care nurse practitioner in the MICU at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. She previously worked as a registered nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the American Thoracic Society.

Kevin Seitz, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is interested in critical care outcomes research, particularly in comparative effectiveness and pragmatic trials. His personal goal to bring methods from implementation science upstream to inform how we design and conduct the trials in order to maximize their impact for patients.