Stephanie Stoops is a new addition to the VCC family, and started as a Clinical Trials Associate II in March, 2017. She attended East Tennessee State University where she was exposed to laboratory science and research, and enjoyed seeing science being born! She graduated in 2014 with a B.S. in Criminal Justice and Behavioral Neuroscience Psychology and a minor in Biology, and began working as a Research Assistant in Evidence Based Addiction Medicine. She is happily engaged, and the mom of two pup children, Winston Macaroni and Hagrid Ravioli. Outside Vanderbilt, Stephanie enjoys Crossfit, friends, food, the mountains, and her favorite people on the planet are her grandparents.