Dr. Urbano is a Clinical Professor in Vanderbilt’s School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. She serves in several leadership capacities at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center: 1) As Director of the Mid-Tennessee Interdisciplinary Instruction in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (MIND) Training Program, part of the national Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND); 2) As Director of Training and Director of Health for the University Center of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD); and 3) As Chair of the Interdisciplinary Training Council for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (EKS IDDRC). All these roles promote interdisciplinary training across various components of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center’s research, training, service and technical assistance programs. Vanderbilt Kennedy Center training programs work closely with collaborating universities and other Vanderbilt departments, most notably the Division of Developmental Medicine and Cognition (Department of Pediatrics). Dr. Urbano has a doctoral degree in adult/continuing education, a master’s degree in Public Health/Nursing, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She has more than 20 years of experience in the field of developmental disabilities. Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, Dr. Urbano served as Director of Nursing Training, Training Coordinator, Associate Director, and Acting Director of the Mailman Center UCEDD and LEND programs at Florida's University of Miami. She also served as Professor and Associate Dean of Lifelong Learning at Vanderbilt's School of Nursing before assuming her role at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.