Medical Director, Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Dr. Gaston is an Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology and Medical Director of the Molecular Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He is trained as a clinical microbiologist as well as an adult infectious disease physician. At VUMC his clinical and research interests focus on molecular methods for infectious disease diagnostics. He co-founded and leads the Consortium for Clinical Metagenomics in Infectious Diseases (CCMID.org), a collaborative organization working to advance diagnostic sequencing for infectious diseases.