Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellow
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Daniel Cook MD, PhD is a current Pulmonary and Cirtical Care Medicine Fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Cook received his Ph.D. in Molecular Physiology and Biophysics as well as his M.D. from the Carver College of Medicine in 2018 as part of the University of Iowa’s Medical Scientist Training Program. While at Iowa, he worked in the laboratory of Dr. David Stoltz. There, Dr. Cook demonstrated that the newborn CF pig displays airway smooth muscle abnormalities prior to the onset of inflammation or infection including increased basal tone, increased bronchodilator response, and decreased calcium reuptake.
Dr. Cook then moved to Nashville, TN where he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. While there, he joined Vanderbilt’s Physician-Scientist Training pathway, the Tinsley Randolph Harrison Society. Following his residency training, Dr. Cook has begun his followship training at Vanderbilt in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. His research phase of this fellowship training is under the mentorship of Dr. Stokes Peebles, an expert in molecular physiology of airway inflammation. The focus of his research is on the initial steps of CF lung inflammation with a goal to determine how specific cytokine stimuli signal the immune response including newly defined innate lymphoid cells to drive innate and adaptive inflammation.