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CORE FACULTY

Katharine M. Donato (Ph.D. SUNY-StonyBrook)
Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
Professor and Chair, Sociology

Courtney S. Muse (Ph.D. Vanderbilt)
Assistant Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society
Senior Lecturer, Sociology

Senior Lecturers:
JuLeigh Petty (Ph.D. Northwestern University)
Senior Lecturer, Medicine, Health, and Society
Research interests include the standardization of medicine, the role of epidemiological evidence in medical decision-making, the regulation and ethics of research and HIV/AIDS.

Marian (Shug) V. Yagel   (Ph.D. Vanderbilt University)
Senior Lecturer, Medicine, Health, and Society
Teaching and research interests include Medical Humanities—medicine and literature; medicine, religion and spirituality; interdisciplinary health care ethics, undergraduate writing and interdisciplinary research. Also Clinical and Research Ethics—human subjects protections; public health history, policy and ethics; informed consent history and practice; professional ethics; and relationships between epistemology and ethical decision-making.

FACULTY AFFILIATES

VANDERBILT COLLEGES (ARTS AND SCIENCES, PEABODY, AND BLAIR)
Anthropology
Beth Conklin
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Thomas Gregor
Professor, Anthropology

Norbert Ross
Associate Professor, Anthropology

Tiffany Tung
Assistant Professor, Anthropology

Chemistry
David Wright
Associate Professor, Chemistry

Economics
Kathryn Anderson
Professor, Economics

English
Jay Clayton
Professor, English

Kate Daniels
Associate Professor, English

Carolyn Dever
Dean, VU College of Arts & Sciences
Professor, English; Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies

Enthnomusicology
Gregory Barz
Professor, Blair

French
Holly Tucker
Associate Professor, French

History
Michael Bess
Directory of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History
Professor, History; Professor, European Studies

Katherine Crawford
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History; Associate Professor, History

Dennis Dickerson
Professor, History

Elizabeth Lunbeck
Chair, Department of History; Professor, History; Professor, Psychiatry

Matthew Ramsey
Associate Professor, History

Ruth Rogaski
Director, Asian Studies Program; Associate Professor, History

Arleen Tuchman
Professor, History

Human and Organizational Development

Vera A. Chatman
Professor, HOD

Sharon Shields
Professor, HOD

Philosophy
Lenn Goodman
Professor, Philosophy

John Lachs
Professor, Philosophy

Russell M. McIntire, Jr.
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Senior Lecturer, Philosophy

Psychology
Richard McCarty
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Professor, Psychology

David Schlundt
Associate Professor, Psychology

Psychology and Human Development
Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey
Associate Professor, Psychology and Human Development

Sociology
Tony Brown
Associate Professor, Sociology

Karen Campbell
Associate Professor, Sociology

Laura Carpenter
Associate Professor, Sociology

Lijun Song
Assistant Professor, Sociology

Spanish
Lorraine Catanzaro
Senior Lecturer, Spanish

VANDERBILT LAW SCHOOL

Health Law & Policy
James Blumstein
Director, Vanderbilt Health Policy Center; Professor, VU Law

Law and Economics
Joni Hersch
Professor, Law and Economics

OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Timothy J. Vogus
Assistant Professor, OGSM

VANDERBILT SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND NURSING

Medicine
Larry Churchill
Professor, Medicine; Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair of Medical Ethics
The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC

Elizabeth Heitman
Associate Professor, Medicine; Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC

Nursing
Barbara Clinton
Assistant Professor, Nursing and Medicine; VU School of Nursing

Carol Etherington
Assistant Professor, VU School of Nursing

Jana Lauderdale
Professor, VU School of Nursing

Melanie Lutenbacher
Associate Professor, VU School of Nursing

Randolph Rasch
Professor, VU School of Nursing

Kenneth Wallston
Professor, Nursing and Psychology; VU School of Nursing

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Frank Boehm
Professor, Obstectrics and Gynecology; Vice Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pediatrics
Ellen Clayton
Professor, Pediatrics and Law
Director, Center for Genetics and Health Policy
Rosalind E. Franklin Professor in Genetics and Health Policy
The Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC

Sten Vermund
Amos Christie Chair and Director, VU Institute for Global Health
Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Preventive Medicine
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, VUMC

Lynn Walker
Professor, Pediatric and Psychology and Human Development

Surgery
Scott Pearson
Assistant Professor of Surgery, VUMC
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

 

OTHER AFFILIATES

Christopher Flectcher, MD, MPH
Occupational Medicine
Metro Public Health Department

Abelardo C. MonCayo, PhD
State Medical Entomologist
Director, Vector-Borner Disease Program, Tennessee Department of Health
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Preventative Medicine, VU School of Medicine