Dr. Carr is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics and Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Carr specializes in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and studies ways to predict disease before it is clinically evident. He is a co-investigator for the MASALA study and his lab has conducted the readings for ectopic pericardial fat and liver fat for the MASALA study. His lab is also making novel measurements of coronary artery cross-sectional area from MASALA cardiac CT scans currently.