The KEV.AI Lab works across industry, academia, federal agencies, and medical societies. These partnerships are how the lab’s research translates into real-world impact — and how real-world signal flows back into the lab.
Portfolio Companies & Spin-Outs
SchoolMe
AI-powered adaptive learning platform for medical education. Licensed from VUMC. The translational outlet for the lab’s AI-in-education research.
Leadership:
- Kevin W. Sexton, MD, FACS — CEO & Co-Founder
- Keith L. Obstein, MD, MPH — Chief Medical Education Officer & Board Chairman
- Carly M. Eckert, MD, PhD, MPH — Chief Operating Officer
- Adria Abella Villafranca — Chief Technology Officer
- Jonathan Barnes — Fractional Chief Revenue Officer (via WorkHeartily)
- Deb Sexton — Controller
- Cara Sanders — Director of Administration
- Catherine Corless — VP Regulatory & Compliance
BRIM Analytics
ARPA-H-funded AI chart abstraction platform. Lab Co-Investigator leadership on AI-guided registry abstraction.
- Principal Investigator: Daniel Fabbri, PhD (VUMC DBMI)
Medical Society Partners
- American College of Surgeons (ACS) — Educational program partnership in development
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Gastroenterological Association (AGA)
- American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
- American Hernia Society
- American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) — Surgical and Procedural Informatics Working Group (founded and chaired by K. Sexton)
- Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative (ACHQC)
Industry Partners
- ChenMed — PDV coaching simulator (SchoolMe)
- amotivv — Memory Pod Fabric (MPF) joint exploration for auditable AI-assisted clinical trial enrollment
- Baxter International — Licensee of venous waveform monitoring technology
Academic Collaborators
- VUMC Section of Surgical Sciences — Carmen Solorzano (General Surgery Department Chair), Seth Karp (Section Chief), Mayur Patel (Division Chief)
- VUMC Department of Biomedical Informatics — Daniel Fabbri (BRIM PI)
- Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE)
- University of Kentucky Center for Applied AI — Cody Bumgardner, PhD (Director)
- Wake Forest Biliary Registry — Luke Neff
- Tennessee Donor Services
- Duke Pratt School of Engineering — C. Eckert adjunct teaching
Federal & Funding Partners
- ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health)
- National Institutes of Health — NIGMS, NINR, NCATS, NLM
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
- National Science Foundation — Digital Health Study Section (reviewer)
- VentureWell — Selection Committee, Biomedical Innovation (since 2013)
Institutional Partners
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Vanderbilt Center for Technology Transfer and Commercialization (CTTC)
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — Ongoing research collaborations
- Rockefeller Bellagio Center — EOI submitted (multimodal AI and global healthcare workforce training)
Interested in Partnering?
We work with medical societies, health systems, industry partners, and academic collaborators on projects that sit at the intersection of clinical need and AI capability. For partnership inquiries, see the Contact page.