MEDICINE, HEALTH AND SOCIETY ROSTER
1. Directory
with addresses (incomplete)
2. Profiles of members (incomplete)
3. Current membership:
CORE FACULTY
ANDERSON, Kathryn. Associate Professor of Economics (A&S). Health policy,
human resource development.
BLITON, Mark. Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics (School of Medicine), Assistant Professor of Philosophy (A&S). Medical ethics.
BLUMSTEIN, James. Centennial Professor of Law (Law School); Director, Center for Health Policy (VIPPS). Health policy.
BROWN, Tony. Assistant Professor of Sociology (A&S). Racial and other social disparities in health and mental health.
CARPENTER, Laura M. Assistant Professor of Sociology (A&S). Gender, sexuality, and health over the life course.
CHURCHILL, Larry. Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics (School of Medicine); secondary appointments in the Graduate Department of Religion (A&S) and Divinity School. Medical ethics.
CLAYTON, Ellen Wright. Professor of Pediatrics, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, Director of the Center for Genetics and Health Policy (School of Medicine); Professor of Law (Law School), and Fellow, VIPPS. Genetics and health policy.
CONKLIN, Beth., Associate Professor of Anthropology (A&S). Medical anthropology; cross-cultural health beliefs and practices; body concepts; death and mourning; indigenous populations; primary health-care delivery in non-industrial societies.
DICKERSON, Dennis. Professor of History. (A&S). American medicine, Afro-American physicians.
DITTUS, Robert S. Albert and Bernard Werthan Professor of Medicine; Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine; Director, Center for Health Services Research; Director, Institute for Community Health; Director, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center; Director, Quality Scholars Program; Director, Center for Improving Patient Safety (School of Medicine/VUMC). Health services research.
FINDER, Stuart, Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics (School of Medicine), Assistant Professor of Philosophy (A&S). Medical ethics.
FOSTER, James. Professor of Economics and Director of the Graduate Program in Economic Development (A&S); Senior Fellow, Health Policy Center (VIPPS). Social and economic disparities in health and health care.
GAY, Volney. Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department and Professor of Anthropology (A&S) Professor of Psychiatry (School of Medicine). Psychoanalysis; theory of emotions in cultural contexts.
HILL, George. Levi Watkins Jr. Professor, Associate Dean for Diversity in Medical Education, and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology (School of Medicine). Racial health disparities. HUMMEL, Leonard. Assistant Professor of Pastoral Counseling and Pastoral Theology (Divinity School). Pastoral theology, community psychology, pastoral care for addictions and mental disorders.
MARVER, Diana. Associate Professor of Medical Administration (School of Medicine); Clinical Associate Professor of Nursing (School of Nursing); Director for Research and Training Programs, Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance. Promotion of intra- and inter-institutional collaborations to study health disparities.
RAMSEY, Matthew. Associate Professor of History (A&S). History of medicine and public health, the medical profession, alternative medicine and quackery.
SCHLUNDT, David. Associate Professor of Psychology (A&S), Assistant Professor of Medicine (School of Medicine). Health psychology; racial and ethnic health disparities.
SO, Stephanie. Research Assistant Professor of Economics and Pediatrics (A&S, School of Medicine). Research Associate, Health Policy Center (VIPPS). Health economics
TUCHMAN, Arleen. Associate Professor of History (A&S). History of medicine and science, gender and medicine, women's health.
WALLSTON, Kenneth. Professor of Psychology in Nursing (School of Nursing); Professor of Psychology (A&S and Peabody); Senior Fellow, Kennedy Center. Health psychology and behavioral medicine.
ASSOCIATES
AMES, Michael. Director, Vanderbilt University Press.
ANDERSON, Victor. Associate Professor of Christian Ethics (Divinity); Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of African American Studies (A&S). Experience of HIV/AIDS among men of color in the southeastern United States.
BACH, Carole Ann. Assistant Professor of the Practice of Nursing; Director, Joint Center for Nursing Research (School of Nursing).
BARZ, Gregory. Assistant Professor of Musicology (Blair). Ethnomusicology; project on AIDS and women's music and dance in Eastern Uganda.
BESS, Michael. Associate Professor of History (A&S). Robotics, genetics, and human identity.
BOLIAN, George. Associate Professor of Psychiatry (School of Medicine).
BUERHAUS,
Peter. Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean for Research (School
of Nursing). The nursing profession.
CAMPBELL,
Karen. Associate Professor of Sociology (A&S). Competition among
health professions; state regulation of nurse practitioners.
CARPENTER, Janet. Associate Professor of Nursing (School of Nursing). Cancer symptom management.
CHATMAN, Vera. Professor of the Practice of Human and Organizational Development (Peabody).
CHERRY,
Shai. Mellon Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought (Religious Studies
- A&S). Science and Judaism.
CLAYTON,
Jay. Professor of English (A&S). Genetics and literature.
DANIELS, Kate. Associate Professor of English.
DAVIS, Hilda R. Adjunct Instructor (Divinity). African-American women, health, and the black church.
DEVER, Carolyn. Associate Professor of English (A&S). Gender, history of sexuality.
DOBBS-WEINSTEIN, Idit. Associate Professor of Philosophy (A&S). Impact of Judeo-Arabic philosophers and their works on Western society.
EAKIN, Marshall. Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department (A&S). Technology in Brazil and Central America; service learning.
EIGEN, Sara. Assistant Professor of German (A&S). Medicine and the life sciences in the eighteenth century.
FIGARO, M. Kathleen. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health Services Research (School of Medicine Racial differences in the expectations of health-care outcomes and their influences on patient self-care behavior.
FOGEL, Sarah. Assistant Professor of the Practice of Nursing (School of Nursing). Care of patients with HIV/AIDS; health-care needs of lesbians and gay men.
FREEMON, Frank. Professor of Neurology (School of Medicine). Medical care during the American Civil War; medicine in ancient Mesopotamia; history of clinical neurology; the apostle Luke as physician.
GACA, Kathy. Assistant Professor of Classics (A&S). Ancient medicine.
GAINES, Lawrence. Associate Professor of Psychiatry (School of Medicine). Substance abuse; meaning/understanding of drinking to children of alcoholics
GOLDBERG, John. Professor of Law (Law School). The professions.
GOODMAN, Lenn. Professor of Philosophy (A&S). Metaphysics, Ethics, Islamic and Jewish Philosophy.
GOVE, Walter. Professor of Sociology (A&S). Social and biological determinants of health and mental health.
GRIFFIN, Marie. Professor of Preventive Medicine Pharmacoepidemiology); Professor of Medicine (School of Medicine). Preventive medicine, public health, adverse reactions to vaccines.
HAGLUND, Richard. Professor of Physics and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Science and the arts, science and religion.
HILL, George. Associate Dean for Diversity and Levi Watkins Jr. Professor for Diversity in Medical Education (School of Medicine).
HOOVER-DEMPSEY, Kathleen. Associate Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Human Development; Associate Professor of Education. Role of family and schools in children's development.
HORN, Mary Ann. Associate Professor of Mathematics (A&S). Mathematical biology.
JENSEN, Gary. Professor of Sociology (A&S). Crime as a public health problem.
JOHNSON, Rolanda. Assistant Professor of Nursing (School of Nursing). Racial identity, socio-demographic factors, health beliefs, and health-promoting behaviors in African-Americans
KAWAMURA, Kazuhiko. Professor of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Computer Engineering; Professor of Management of Technology. Humanoid robots, memory structures for a robot brain; human-robot symbiosis.
LaMONTAGNE, Lynda L. Professor of Nursing (School of Nursing). Relationship between organizational behavior and health outcomes, especially among health-care professionals.
LANDERS, Jane. Associate Professor of History; Director, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program; Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science (A&S). African belief systems and practices evident among African-descended peoples in the Americas which relate to well-being, disease, and death
LUTENBACHER, Melanie. Associate Professor of Nursing and Director, PhD in Nursing Science Program (School of Nursing). Systems of care for high-risk families, psychosocial predictors of abusive parenting, community response to violence.
MAHADEVAN-JANSEN, Anita. Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Engineering). Biomedical optics.
MARCUS, Leah. Edwin Mims Professor of English (A&S). Literature and medicine, constructions of the body, psychoanalytic perspectives on the relationship of psyche and soma.
MASON, Hyacinth.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine (School of Medicine); joint
appointment as Assistant
Professor of Medicine at Meharry and Faculty
Coordinator of the Meharry Medical College-Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer
Center Partnership. Cancer disparities.
McCAMMON, Holly. Associate Professor of Sociology (A&S).
McCARTHY, John. Professor of German, Professor of Comparative Literature (A&S). Goethe and the life sciences; poet doctors; mental and physical health in literature; genetics and Guenter Grass.
McGILL,
Margaret. Instructor in the Practice of Nursing (School of Nursing).
Midwifery.
McINTIRE,
Russell M., Jr. Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Associate Dean (A&S).
Medical ethics.
McNAMARA, Timothy. Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department (A&S). Cognitive science; how people learn, remember and navigate their environments, and the nature and the causes of gender and cultural differences in spatial cognition.
MILLER,
Bonnie. Associate Dean for Medical Students, Assistant Professor of
Medical Administration, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery (School
of Medicine).
MURPHY,
Barbara A. Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
(School of Medicine); Director, Pain and Symptom Management Program,
VUMC. Symptom control issues for patients receiving combined modality
cancer therapy.
PEARSON, A. Scott. Assistant Professor of Surgery.
PHILIPS, F. Carter. Associate Professor of Classics (A&S). Ancient medicine.
RUSSELL,
Clifford S. Professor of Economics; Professor of Public Policy (A&S);
Director of VIPPS.
SHIELDS,
Sharon L. Professor of the Practice of Health Promotion and Education
(Peabody) and Assistant Provost for Academic Service-Learning. Health
service delivery/access to diverse populations; service-learning/experiential
learning in the undergraduate curriculum; disease risk reduction and
health/activity issues for girls and women.
SPEER, Paul.
Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development (Peabody).
Local community development.
SPICKARD,
Anderson, Jr. Professor of Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry; Director,
Center for Professional Health (School of Medicine). Drug and alcohol
addiction, physician health.
STRAUSS, Arnold W. James C. Overall Professor of Pediatrics and Department Chair, and Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (School of Medicine); Investigator and Senior Fellow, Kennedy Center.
SULLIVAN, James N. Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine (School of Medicine).
TARPLEY, John. Professor of Surgery (School of Medicine). spirituality and medicine, history of medicine.
TARPLEY, Margaret. Associate in Surgery for Surgical Education, Department of Surgery (School of Medicine).
TAYLOR, Cathy. Assistant Professor of Nursing (Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance & School of Nursing). Project Director of Disease Management for the Alliance.
TELOH, Mary. Area Coordinator, Special Collections, Eskind Biomedical Library
THAKKAR, Vatsal. Instructor in Psychiatry (School of Medicine). History of medicine and psychiatry; the effects of capitalism on the health care system.
TUCKER, Holly. Assistant Professor of French (A&S). Obstetrics and embryology in literature.
VICTOR, Bart. Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership (Owen). Social and moral consequences of new organizational forms.
WAGNER, Lois. Senior Associate in Pediatrics; Adjunct Instructor in Nursing (School of Medicine/School of Nursing).
WALKER, Lynn S. Professor of Pediatrics (School of Medicine); Associate Professor of Psychology (A&S and Peabody); Investigator and Senior Fellow, Kennedy Center. Psychological and biological determinants of variations in health outcomes
WANG, Ping. Professor of Economics (A&S). Economics of fertility behavior, economics of substance abuse.
WELLS, Nancy. Director of Nursing Research, Vanderbilt University Hospitals & Clinics; Research Associate Professor of Nursing (School of Nursing). Pain management.
WONG, Kenneth. Professor of Political Science (A&S); rofessor of Public Policy and Education, Department of Leadership and Organizations (Peabody); Associate Director, Peabody Center for Education Policy. Institutional redesign in public agencies.
WRIGHT, David W. Assistant Professor of Chemistry (A&S). Malaria research in developing nations.