Joe LaVigne

Linville Gorge

I am a medical student at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. During my training, I am concurrently training to integrate research into my clinic in the future. Specifically, I am interested in investigating in applying machine learning to improve clinical outcomes. Since February 2025, I have been working in the Zannas Laboratory investigating epigenetic patterns in relation to stress and aging.

Prior to starting my medical training, I completed the MEDPREP postbacc program at the University of Michigan. I transitioned back to becoming a student after working full-time as a clinical research coordinator in the Michigan Medicine Department of Hematology and Oncology. Prior to this, I worked in the Pediatric Nephrology Clinical and Translational Research Program for the NEPTUNE study and CureGN study. Additionally, I worked as the lead Patient-Reported Outcomes Consortium research assistant and data manager.

I earned my bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan where I majored in Latin Language and Literature and minored in Moral and Political Philosophy.