Faculty

Primary Faculty

Dominique P. Béhague

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Panka Bencsik

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and of Public Policy

Heidi Bludau

Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society

Jaime Bruce

Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society

Melinda Buntin

Distinguished University Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Celina Callahan-Kapoor

Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society

Kirsty A. Clark

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Marcus Dillender

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Gilbert Gonzales, PhD, MHA

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Aimi Hamraie

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Martha Jones

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Lucie Kalousová

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Odie Lindsey

Writer-in-Residence of Medicine, Health, and Society

Kenneth MacLeish

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Tara McKay

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD

Director, Department of Medicine, Health, and Society

Hector Myers

Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society, Emeritus

Courtney S. Peterson

Director of Undergraduate Advising

JuLeigh Petty

Director of Graduate Studies

Lijun Song

Associate Professor of Sociology, Medicine, Health, and Society, Asian Studies Program, and American Studies

Laura Stark

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Katherine Wen

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and of Public Policy

Caroline Randall Williams

Writer-in-Residence of Medicine, Health, and Society

Secondary & Affiliated Faculty

First	Last	Title	Areas of Study	Profile	Email	Department	School or College
Beth	Conklin	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Anthropology	Arts and Science
Edward (Ted)	Fischer	Professor		Profile	Email	Anthropology	Arts and Science
Norbert	Ross	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Anthropology	Arts and Science
Tiffiny	Tung	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Anthropology	Arts and Science
Julián F.	Hillyer	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Biological Sciences	Arts and Science
Carl H.	Johnson	Stevenson Professor		Profile	Email	Biological Sciences	Arts and Science
Laurence	Zwiebel	Professor		Profile	Email	Biological Sciences	Arts and Science
Kevin T.	Seale	Assistant Professor				Biomedical Engineering	School of Engineering
David W.	Wright	Stevenson Professor		Profile	Email	Chemistry	Arts and Science
Victor	Anderson	Oberlin Theological School Professor of Ethics and Society; Professor of the Program in African American and Diaspora Studies and Religious Studies		Profile	Email	Christian Ethics	Divinity School
Ian	Campbell	Assistant Professor				Clinical Medicine
Kathryn	Anderson	Professor	Labor and economic development	Profile	Email	Economics	Arts and Science
Christopher (Kitt)	Carpenter	Professor		Profile	Email	Economics	Arts and Science
Ebony	McGee	Assistant Professor				Education	Peabody College
Jay	Clayton	William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor	Victorian literature, Genetics and literature, Digital technology and online narratives, Contemporary fiction	Profile	Email	English	Arts and Science
Kate	Daniels	Professor of English & Creative Writing	Creative Writing: Poetry, 19th & 20th Century American Poetry, Women’s Poetry, Psychoanalysis and Poetry	Profile	Email	English	Arts and Science
Ifeoma	Nwankwo	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	English	Arts and Science
Gregory	Barz	Professor				Ethnomusicology
Nathalie D.	Porter	Senior Lecturer		Profile	Email	French and Italian	Arts and Science
Holly	Tucker	Professor		Profile	Email	French and Italian	Arts and Science
James F.	Blumstein	Professor of Constitutional Law and Health Law & Policy; Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management; Director, Vanderbilt Health Policy Center	Health law and public policy, Constitutional law	Profile	Email	Health Law and Policy	Law
Melissa	McPheeters	Professor				Health Policy	School of Medicine
Abelardo	Moncayo	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Health Policy	School of Medicine
Sayeh	Nikpay	Assistant Professor				Health Policy	School of Medicine
Muktar	Aliyu	Associate Professor				Health Policy and Medicine	School of Medicine
Michael	Bess	Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Katherine	Crawford	Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Dennis C.	Dickerson	Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Sarah	Igo	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Jane	Landers	Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Ruth	Rogaski	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Arleen Marcia	Tuchman	Professor		Profile	Email	History	Arts and Science
Velma McBride	Murry	Professor				Human and Organizational Development	Peabody College
Sharon	Shields	Associate Dean for Professional Education, Office of the Dean; Professor of the Practice & Associate Dean, Dept. of Human & Organizational Development	Community health and human issues	Profile	Email	Human and Organizational Development	Peabody College
Terry A.	Maroney	Professor				Law	Law
Joni	Hersch	Professor of Law and Economics; Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics	Labor Economics, Discrimination, Law and Economics	Profile	Email	Law and Economics	Law
W. Kip	Viscusi	University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management; Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics	Tort reform, Risk and insurance, Law and economics	Profile	Email	Law and Economics	Law
Timothy J.	Vogus	Associate Professor	Organization Studies, Health Care	Profile	Email	Management and Organization Studies	Owen Graduate School of Management
David	Aronoff	Professor				Medicine	School of Medicine
Larry R.	Churchill	Professor of Medicine; Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics		Profile	Email	Medicine	School of Medicine
Joseph Burton	Fanning	Assistant Professor of Medicine	Understanding the connections between clinical ethics and the skills that promote strong clinician-patient relationships	Profile	Email	Medicine	School of Medicine
Douglas C.	Heimburger	Associate Director for Education and Training, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Professor of Medicine		Profile	Email	Medicine	School of Medicine
Camellia	Koleyni				Email	Medicine	School of Medicine
Russell L.	Rothman	Vice President for Population Health Research; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Health Policy	Health Services Research, Diabetes and Obesity Management and Prevention, Health Behavior, Health Communication	Profile	Email	Medicine	School of Medicine
Jamie	Pope	Assistant Professor of Practice				Medicine, Health, and Society	Arts and Science
Charles	Cobb	Professor				Molecular Physiology and Physics
Peter I.	Buerhaus	Professor of Nursing, Montana State University College of Nursing; Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies	Monitoring and analyzing trends in employment and earnings, and the age composition of the nurse and physician workforces, Developing, testing and refining measures of nurse-sensitive quality of care	Profile	Email	Nursing	School of Medicine
Rolanda	Johnson	Assistant Dean for Academics; Associate Professor	Health promotion of African-Americans, Black racial identity, Genetics & Obesity	Profile	Email	Nursing	School of Nursing
Jana	Lauderdale	Assistant Dean for Office of Diversity & Inclusion; Professor	Health disparities, Native American women’s health, Minority nursing students’ educational issues	Profile	Email	Nursing	School of Nursing
Melanie	Lutenbacher	Associate Professor of Nursing and Medicine (General Pediatrics)	Community and home-based interventions to prevent or reduce known risks associated with preterm births, at-risk parenting, and a rapid repeat pregnancy, Family-centered systems of care for high-risk families, Maternal psychosocial predictors of abusive or at-risk parenting.	Profile	Email	Nursing	School of Nursing
Linda D.	Norman	Valere Potter Menefee Professor in Nursing; Dean of Vanderbilt School of Nursing	Quality improvement and program evaluation	Profile	Email	Nursing	School of Nursing
Louise	Rollins-Smith	Associate Professor				Nursing	School of Nursing
Kenneth	Wallston	Professor of Psychology; Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor	Psychometric measurement, Perceived control of health; health locus of control; perceived competence, Adaptation to chronic illness, Health literacy and numeracy; public health literacy	Profile	Email	Nursing and Psychology	School of Nursing
Frank H.	Boehm	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences		Profile	Email	Obstetrics and Gynecology	School of Medicine
Bart	Victor	Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership	Ethics and Social Responsibility, Communications, Organization Studies	Profile	Email	Organization Studies	Owen Graduate School of Management
Troy	Moon	Assistant Professor				Pediatric Infectious Disease
Ellen W.	Clayton	Professor of Pediatrics; Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy; Professor of Law; Craig-Weaver Chair in Pediatrics; Co-founder, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society	Intersection of law, medicine and public health	Profile	Email	Pediatrics and Law	School of Medicine
Lynn S.	Walker	Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Health	Research Emphasis, Chronic pain in adolescents	Profile	Email	Pediatrics and Psychology and Human Development	School of Medicine
Pat	Levitt	Professor				Pharmacology
Lenn E.	Goodman	Professor of Philosophy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities	Metaphysics, Ethics, Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy	Profile	Email	Philosophy	Arts and Science
John	Lachs	Centennial Professor of Philosophy	Metaphysics, Philosophy of mind, Political philosophy, Ethics	Profile	Email	Philosophy	Arts and Science
Cindy	Kam	Professor				Political Science
Carolyn M.	Audet	Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy	Understanding health seeking behavior and traditional treatment practices in resource limited settings	Profile	Email	Preventative Medicine	School of Medicine
Richard C.	McCarty	Professor	Physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension	Profile	Email	Psychology	Arts and Science
Timothy P.	McNamara	Professor	Mechanisms of memory retrieval, Spatial memory, Text comprehension	Profile	Email	Psychology	Arts and Science
Elisabeth H.	Sandberg	Senior Lecturer				Psychology	Arts and Science
David G.	Schlundt	Associate Professor	Nutrition and behavior in chronic disease, Health disparities	Profile	Email	Psychology	Arts and Science
Bruce	Compas	Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair of Psychology and Human Development; Professor of Pediatrics; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development	Processes of coping and self-regulation in response to stress and adversity in children, adolescents, and adults	Profile	Email	Psychology and Human Development	Arts and Science
Kathleen	Hoover-Dempsey	Professor of Psychology & Human Development, Emerita	Parental involvement in children’s and adolescents’ education and the influence of family engagement on student learning outcomes	Profile	Email	Psychology and Human Development	Arts and Science
Phillis	Sheppard	E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair Associate Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture Director, James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements	Religion, Psychology, and Culture			Religion, Psychology, and Culture	Divinity School/Graduate Department of Religion
Laura M.	Carpenter	Associate Professor	Gender, Sex & Sexuality, Health and Medicine, Aging and the Life Course,Qualitative Methods, Mass Media and Journalism	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
C. André	Christie-Mizell	Professor of Sociology; Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education,College of Arts and Science; Health Policy Associate, Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Medicine, Health and Society	Social Psychology, Physical and Mental Health, Family, Race/Ethnicity, Statistics, Quantitative Methods	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
David	Hess	Professor				Sociology	Arts and Science
Bianca	Manago	Assistant Professor				Sociology	Arts and Science
Evelyn	Patterson	Associate Professor				Sociology	Arts and Science
Lorraine	Catanzaro	Senior Lecturer	Spanish and Portuguese, Spanish for the Medical Professions	Profile	Email	Spanish and Portuguese	Arts and Science
Benigno	Trigo	Department Chair; Professor of Spanish	19th-Century Spanish American Literature, Literary Theory, Modernism, and Psychoanalysis	Profile	Email	Spanish and Portuguese	Arts and Science
Scott	Pearson	Associate Professor				Surgery	School of Medicine
John L.	Tarpley	Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology Emeritus, Department of Surgery, Section of Surgical Sciences; Program Director Emeritus, General Surgery Residency	Mosquito immunology and physiology, Host-parasite interactions	Profile	Email	Surgery	School of Medicine