MEDLab

Lab Director

Robert J Webster III

Affiliated Faculty

Erin Gillaspie

Paul Russell

Robert F. Labadie

Fabien Maldonado

S. Duke Herrell

Jason Mitchell

Thomas J Withrow

Postdoctoral Scholars

Ernar Amanov

Josephine Granna

Graduate Students (PhD)

Jason Shrand

E. Bryn Pitt

Dominick Ropella

Max Emerson

Tayfun Efe Ertop

James M Ferguson

Katy Riojas

NSF Fellowship

Margaret Rox

Patrick Anderson

NSF Fellowship

Michael Siebold

NSF Fellowship

Andria Remirez

NSF Fellowship

Undergraduate Students

Juyoung Kim

Adrian Florea

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

Alan Kuntz

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., Univ. Utah

Yue Chen

Co-Advised PhD Student

Assistant Prof., UARK

Joshua Gafford

Postdoc

Smita De

Postdoc

Cleveland Clinic

Loris Fichera

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., WPI

Isuru Godage

Postdoc

Assistant Prof., DePaul

Richard Hendrick

PhD Student

Virtuoso Surgical

Neal Dillon

PhD Student

Virtuoso Surgical

Art Mahoney

Postdoc

Sarcos Robotics

Philip Swaney

PhD Student

Tech Transfer Officer, Vanderbilt

Hunter Gilbert

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., LSU

Patrick Wellborn

PhD Student

David Comber

Co-Advised PhD Student

Sarcos Robotics

Lou Kratchman

PhD Student

Draper Labs

Raul Wirz

Postdoc

Software Engr., Globus Med.

Ray Lathrop

PhD Student

Eli Lilly

Jenna Gorlewicz

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., SLU

Jessica Burgner

Postdoc

Faculty, MZH Hannover

Caleb Rucker

PhD Student

Assistant Prof., UT Knoxville

Jadav Das

Co-Advised PhD Student

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

Trevor Bruns

PhD Student

Undergraduate Alumni

Nick Pieper

Katie Gosbee

James Zhu

Evan Blum

Nick Catalan

Patrick Hall

Cindy Lin Liu

Matthew Medlock

Mark Chambliss

Brandon Bolds

Todd Dutton

Rob Pieper

Sam Nackman

Tiffany Cheng

Jim Boyle

Randy Smith

Xavier Waller

David Gostin

Tyler Steier

Justin Saunders

Zach Smith

Mohammed (Mish) Rahman

Stephen (Sam) Malanowski

Jordan Croom

Amri Abdul Razak

Michael Jekot

Marlena Clark

Syed Hamid

Sani Sulaiman

Scott Nill

Dexter Watkins

Dylan P Losey

Peter York

Yifan Zhu

Erik Lamers

Matthew Hostetler

Recent News

08/24/2020

Dr. Webster started his 3rd year of teaching the class "Innovation Realization: From Academic Insight to Entrepreneurial Impact." The class combines teams of engineering Ph.D. students, law students, and MBA students to work on developing research ideas into products with a business plan!

08/03/2020

Jason Shrand joined the MED Lab this summer. He is pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Welcome, Jason!

07/31/2020

Dr. Joshua Gafford finished his postdoc in MED Lab and is now the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of EndoTheia. EndoTheia is a startup company that Dr. Webster co-founded with Dr. Gafford in 2018 to commercialize technology originally invented in the MED Lab.

07/28/2020

The MED Lab's image guidance team has just completed the first in-human trial of our Surgical GPS system for the da Vinci Robot. Congrats, team!

07/15/2020

MED Lab student Patrick Wellborn successfully defended his PhD dissertation, titled "Human-Robot Collaborative Mastoidectomy: Combining Human Path Adaptation with Robotic Accuracy." Congrats, Dr. Wellborn!

05/19/2020

As of May 19, MED Lab personnel are approved to come back to campus!

03/09/2020

The MED Lab is working on an open-source ventillator concept to be used in emergency situations created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest news and details on the project can be found here: https://lab.vanderbilt.edu/medlab/.

02/06/2020

Image-guided, minimally invasive cochlear implant clinical trials are back under way at Vanderbilt! The new manual insertion tool developed by the MED Lab and CAOS Lab was used for the first time in a very successful first clinical case!

01/01/2020

Congratulations to Dr. Webster and his collaborators (Dr. Eric Barth, Dr. Kevin Galloway, Dr. Caleb Rucker at UTK, and Dr. Kourosh Shoele at FAMU-FSU) for being awarded an NSF EFRI grant! The project will be working on model-based design and control of power-dense soft hydraulic robots for demanding and uncertain environments.

11/18/2019

Professor Webster has been appointed to the International Research and Engagement committee. This committee will enhace international research and engagement, bring talented international scholars and graduate students to campus, and connect scholars with policymakers and public intellectuals from around the world. (Link)