Eric
R.
Tkaczyk
MD, PhD
Eric Robert Tkaczyk, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dermatology and is a physician-scientist with research interests in biophotonics for diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases. Some of his research specialties include noninvasive diagnostic technology, 3D imaging, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and deep learning. Some of his clinical interests include graft-versus-host disease, skin cancer and reflectance confocal microscopy.
Dr. Tkaczyk is a graduate of the MD/PhD program at the University of Michigan, with PhD in electrical engineering from the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS). At CUOS, he overlapped with his academic grandfather Gerard Mourou, the 2018 Nobel Laureate who founded the lab. Dr. Tkaczyk's post-doctoral training in medical device design at the University of Tartu was supported by Fulbright and Whitaker awards. This work culminated with a prize awarded by the US Ambassador to Estonia and the Estonian Speaker of Parliament at the 2011 Estonian-American Innovation Award ceremony.
He is board-certified to practice dermatology both in the U.S. and in Europe, by the American Board of Dermatology and the European Board of Dermato - Venereology. As founding director of the Vanderbilt Dermatology Translational Research Clinic, he lectures internationally on dermatologic imaging technologies, which is his research focus.
Dr. Tkaczyk sees patients at Vanderbilt's dermatology offices in Nashville and is an attending physician at the Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System in Nashville.
Dr. Tkaczyk's additional appointments at Vanderbilt:
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics
- Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr. Tkaczyk's areas of expertise and clinical and research interests:
- Biophotonics for diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases
- Noninvasive diagnostic technology
- 3D imaging
- Machine learning/Artificial intelligence/Deep learning
- Graft-versus-host disease
- Skin cancer
- Reflectance confocal microscopy