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Join hosts Sahen Garcia and Kristin Walker with Dr. David Vigerust discussing genetics and digital media use. Could an addiction to social media, our smartphones, online gaming, online anything be in our genetic makeup? Is there a genetic test we could take to determine this? Does epigenetics play a part? Let's hear from someone who completed their education with honors and is an actual geneticist!

Dave Vigerust, MS., Ph.D. is the Director of Clinical Affairs for Volente Healthcare and a founding member of Digital Tech Initiative. After earning his bachelor’s in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Texas at El Paso, his master’s in Microbiology and Immunology from Texas Tech, and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from Vanderbilt University, Dr. Dave Vigerust conducted post-doctoral research at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in viral glycosylation, host defense from influenza, and bacterial secondary infection. He then transferred back to Nashville where he completed a second fellowship on the molecular biology of pediatric respiratory viruses at Vanderbilt.

While serving on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology, he was concurrently a Health Research Scientist and managed his own laboratory in the Nashville U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs. Dr. Vigerust later served as the Chief Scientific Officer for a molecular diagnostics laboratory focused on prevention medicine.

Dr. Vigerust has been published extensively in international journals, is an active editor and reviewer for several scientific journals and is a frequent presenter at national and international conferences. Dr. Vigerust is also an inventor and innovator and has developed several novel molecular diagnostic assays for predicting cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes, infectious disease and cancer.

Over the past 20 years he’s received many awards for his research and was selected as a TEDx speaker on the subject of precision medicine. Dr. Vigerust currently maintains Assistant Professor positions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Maryland.

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