Research with VCOTT
VCOTT, the Vanderbilt Collaborative for Obesity Trials and Translational science, is open to investigators at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and elsewhere whose work concerns obesity.
Investigators at VUMC
Membership is open to VUMC faculty conducting obesity research. Member investigators currently come from surgery, endocrinology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, biostatistics, and biomedical informatics.
An investigator who brings a study to VCOTT can expect:
- discussion with the co-directors of study design and feasibility;
- consideration of automated identification of candidates in the electronic health record, for protocols where it applies;
- planning of biospecimen collection at the design stage, so that mechanistic questions can be addressed later.
Each request is considered against the group's current commitments.
The Obesity Research Working Group
The working group meets monthly and brings together obesity researchers from across VUMC. It currently meets by invitation; investigators who would like to take part may write to the co-directors.
Collaborators outside VUMC
VCOTT welcomes collaboration on multicenter trials, pragmatic and comparative effectiveness studies, and mechanistic questions that draw on its studies.
Contact
contact@vcott.org reaches both co-directors.