Associate Professor
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bryan Marascalchi, MD is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Assistant Director of Medical Device Commercialization at the Brock Family Center for Applied Innovation. He is an academic anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician, entrepreneur, and researcher dedicated to advancing neuromodulation and medical device innovation.
Dr. Marascalchi earned his MD from New York University School of Medicine, where he also completed a research fellowship in bioinformatics and biodesign, focusing on large database analysis, clinical trials, and healthcare software development. Following an internship at Weill Cornell Medicine, he trained in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He subsequently completed a multidisciplinary chronic pain fellowship at Johns Hopkins, remained on faculty as a full-time attending, and pursued an NIH research fellowship while founding two venture-funded healthcare startups.
His career blends clinical expertise with entrepreneurial insight, pioneering healthcare devices and software solutions that translate research into meaningful patient outcomes. He has authored over twenty peer-reviewed publications and is nationally recognized for his skills in prototyping, patenting, and digital health innovation.
Dr. Marascalchi is passionate about transforming the delivery of pain management, improving patient quality of life, and leveraging innovation to create broad, sustainable impact in healthcare.
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