MEDLab

Lab Director

Robert J Webster III

Affiliated Faculty

Kyle Weaver

Paul Russell

Robert F. Labadie

Fabien Maldonado

S. Duke Herrell

Smita De

Jason Mitchell

Thomas J Withrow

Postdoctoral Scholars

Joshua Gafford

Graduate Students (PhD)

Dominick Ropella

Max Emerson

Tayfun Efe Ertop

James M Ferguson

Katy Riojas

NSF Fellowship

Margaret Rox

Patrick Wellborn

NSF Fellowship

Patrick Anderson

NSF Fellowship

Michael Siebold

NSF Fellowship

Andria Remirez

NSF Fellowship

Trevor Bruns

Graduate Students (MS)

Stephanie Amack

Undergraduate Students

Cindy Lin Liu

PhD/Postdoc Alumni

Yue Chen

Co-Advised PhD Student

Assistant Prof., UARK

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

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.

Undergraduate Alumni

Evan Blum

Nick Catalan

Patrick Hall

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

03/05/2019

Stephanie Amack defends her masters of science thesis "Design of a Compact, Workflow-Oriented Robot for Transbronchial Lung Biopsy." Way to go, Steph!

03/01/2019

Congratulations to lab members Katherine Riojas and Stephanie Amack for presenting at the 2019 SPIE Medical Imaging conference in San Diego. Steph presented her design work on "A new approach to homing and tool changes in needle-like surgical robots," and Katy presented "A new manual insertion tool for minimally invasive, image-guided cochlear implant surgery."

02/25/2019

Vanderbilt University has named MED Lab director Dr. Webster the Richard A. Schroeder Chair in Mechanical Engineering. An endowed professorship is regarded as the highest award that a university can bestow on a faculty member. Congratulations, Dr. Webster!

08/06/2018

The MED Lab makes an appearance on Nashville's largest news network! News Channel 5 aired a story on one of our newest robot systems developed for lung surgery. Check out the story here on YouTube.

04/08/2018

MED Lab director Dr. Robert Webster has been elevated to Full Professor this year. Congratulations, Dr. Webster!

10/20/2017

This year's winner of the MED Lab Salsa Cookoff was Max Emerson. The competition was tough, but Max's tasty, California-style guacamole came out on top!

10/19/2017

Stephanie Amack scores her third goal of the soccer season, and Vanderbilt beats University of Tennessee in a nail-biter! Congrats, Steph!

09/05/2017

Max Emerson, Tayfun Efe Ertop and Stephanie Amack all joined the MED Lab this summer. We're looking forward to all the cool research they'll be doing as they pursue graduate degrees!

07/03/2017

At the 2017 ICRA conference in Singapore, Patrick presented his work on Real-Time Redundancy Resolution for Concentric Tube Robots to Avoid Elastic Instability. He was awarded best poster in the C4 Surgical Robotics Workshop. Congrats, Patrick!

06/26/2017

MED Lab post-doc Isuru Godage will be heading to Chicago this fall as an assistant professor in the School of Computing at DePaul University. Congrats, Isuru!