John S. Sergent Biographical File

John Sergent, MD, is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He has had a faculty appointment at Vanderbilt since 1975 and previous positions include director of the Division of Rheumatology, Chief of Medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital (which had an educational affiliation with Vanderbilt at the time), Vanderbilt’s first Chief Medical Officer, and the internal medicine Residency Program Director. He is a past president of the American College of Rheumatology and past chair of the Rheumatology section of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He received his M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1966, and completed an internship and residency at Johns Hopkins University in 1968. He completed a second residency at Vanderbilt in 1962, and a fellowship in rheumatic diseases at Cornell University in 1974.

Biography from VUMC Department Directory https://medicine.vumc.org/department-directory/John-S-Sergent