Brenda Barker
TIPQC Project Director & Improvement Advisor
Brenda.Barker@TIPQC.org

Brenda Barker joined TIPQC as the full time Project Manager in 2008 and is currently the Project Director & Improvement Advisor. Brenda has been an educator, speaker, author, counselor, social worker, and for 14 years has worked in international medical relief and adoptions as the Southeast Regional Director of one of the largest US children’s humanitarian organizations, overseeing four US offices and a team in 11 states. She has worked extensively around the world with government officials and orphanages, and at-risk children and their families. Brenda has been an activist on women’s issues, serving on President Carter’s National Advisory Committee for Women and has received numerous honors, including a US Congressional Award. Brenda brings the family perspective to TIPQC as a parent of three premies, including twin daughters, and as a parent of a son who won a hard fought six year battle with leukemia following a successful bone marrow transplant. Brenda was chosen the Ambassador of the Year, Volunteer of the Year, and her family was honored as the Family of the Year for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, as well as the Tennessee Family of the Year. Brenda lives in Brentwood, Tennessee with her husband and their international family of 9 children who were adopted from India, China, Latvia, Vietnam, and Ethiopia.

Peter Grubb, MD
TIPQC Medical Director
Peter.Grubb@TIPQC.org

Dr. Grubb is a neonatologist who serves as the Medical Director for TIPQC, the Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care. He is a faculty member in the division of Neonatology at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and serves as the Medical Director for the Stahlman Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and for Vanderbilt’s Neonatal ECMO program. Prior to coming to Tennessee, Dr. Grubb was on active duty in the U.S. Air Force and served as the Medical Director of the NICU at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Okinawa Japan, and as the Director of the Air Force’s air transport ECMO program at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Theresa Scott
TIPQC Biostatistician

Theresa received her MS in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in April 2003 and has been part of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University since April 2004. She has provided statistical support for the physicians, clinicians, post-docs, fellows, residents, and medical students in numerous Departments and Divisions in the School of Medicine. In particular, she has collaborated with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In addition to collaborating on the design, implementation, analysis, and publication of research projects, Theresa also formally and informally teaches researchers at all levels about various biostatistics related topics. Theresa will commit 50% of her effort to TIPQC.

Jeffrey Horner
TIPQC Software Engineer

Jeffrey has over ten years experience writing software for academia and industry. After earning his bachelors degree in Computer Science, he worked for two years on numerical libraries in C and Fortran at the University of Tennessee’s Innovative Computing Laboratory. He further obtained a wealth of web software infrastructure experience over the next five years working for various clients whose industries ranged from software for clinical practice management to busy online web stores. Since 2004, Jeffrey has been a systems analyst in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University where he writes statistical research software. His expertise is web enabling statistical analyses and graphics using the R statistical language.

Jeremy Stephens
TIPQC Software Engineer

Jeremy, a Belmont University graduate, has been working as a software developer in the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University for four years. He has worked on various projects related to newborns and children, including maintaining a web application for NICU data entry, and developing a database linkage program for a research project to find and analyze data on children diagnosed with Down Syndrome. He has experience working with data from VON and from the state. Jeremy is also involved in the Ruby community, having developed many web applications using the Rails framework as well as standalone Ruby applications. In addition, he provides some technical support for R users and authored and maintains an R package used in handling YAML documents.

Lynn Booker
Administrative Assistant

Lynn received her B.S. degree in Communications from Freed-Hardeman University in 1993. She joined TIPQC in January of 2010. Lynn brings over 15 years of office and event planning experience from both the finance and healthcare industries.