Faculty

Primary Faculty

Dominique P. Béhague

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Celina Callahan-Kapoor

Senior Lecturer of Medicine, Health, and Society

Lauren Gaydosh

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Gilbert Gonzales

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Derek Griffith

Professor of Medicine, Health & Society

Aimi Hamraie

Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Martha Jones

Associate 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 and Anthropology

Tara McKay

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society

Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD

Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society

Hector Myers

Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society and Psychology

Courtney S. Peterson

Director of Undergraduate Advising

JuLeigh Petty

Director of Graduate Studies

Danielle Picard

Assistant 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 & History

Caroline Randall Williams

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

Secondary & Affiliated Faculty

First	Last	Title		Profile	Email	Department	School or College
Beth	Conklin	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	Anthropology	Arts and Science
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
David W.	Wright	Stevenson Professor		Profile	Email	Chemistry	Arts and Science
Kathryn	Anderson	Professor of Economics	Labor and economic development	Profile	Email	Economics	Arts and Science
Christopher (Kitt)	Carpenter	Professor of Economics		Profile	Email	Economics	Arts and Science
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
Leah	Marcus	Edwin Mims Professor of English	Literature and medicine, Constructions of the body	Profile	Email	English	Arts and Science
Ifeoma	Nwamkwo	Associate Professor		Profile	Email	English	Arts and Science
Nathalie	Dieu-Porter	Principal Senior Lecturer		Profile	Email	French and Italian	Arts and Science
Holly	Tucker	Professor		Profile	Email	French and Italian	Arts and Science
John	McCarthy	Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Professor of European Studies	Goethe and the life sciences, Poet doctors, Mental and physical health in literature, Genetics and Guenter Grass	Profile	Email	German	Arts and Science
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
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
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
Richard C.	McCarty	Professor of Psychology	Physiological and behavioral adaptions to stress and factors contributing to development of hypertension	Profile	Email	Psychology	Arts and Science
Timothy P.	McNamara	Professor of Psychology	Mechanisms of memory retrieval, Spatial memory, Text comprehension	Profile	Email	Psychology	Arts and Science
David G.	Schlundt	Associate Professor of Psychology	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
Volney P.	Gay	Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Anthropology		Profile	Email	Religious Studies	Arts and Science
Karen E.	Campbell	Associate Professor of Sociology Emerita; Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Science; Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies	Gender Inequality, Occupations and Professions, Social Networks	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
Laura M.	Carpenter	Associate Professor of Sociology	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
Katharine M.	Donato	Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Political Science; Affiliated Faculty, Women and Gender Studies	International Migration between Mexico and the U.S., Social Determinants of Health, Immigrants in the U.S. Economy, Ethnic and Gender Stratification	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
R. Jay	Turner	Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus; Affiliated Professor and Psychiatric Director, Center for Research on Health Disparities	Mental Health/Substance Use Problems, Psychiatric Epidemiology	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
Lijun	Song	Associate Professor of Sociology; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, Asian Studies Program, and American Studies	Social Networks, Medical Sociology, Social Stratification	Profile	Email	Sociology	Arts and Science
Lori	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
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		Divinity
James F.	Blumstein	University 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		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
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
Bart	Victor	Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership	Ethics and Social Responsibility, Communications, Organization Studies	Profile	Email		Owen Graduate School of Management
Tim	Vogus	Associate Professor of Management	Organization Studies, Health Care	Profile	Email		Owen Graduate School of Management
Carolyn M.	Audet	Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy	Understanding health seeking behavior and traditional treatment practices in resource limited settings	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Melinda J.	Beeuwkes Buntin	Professor and Chair, Department of Health Policy	Health Economics, Health Care Spending, Medicare, Medicaid, Payment Reform, Insurance	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Frank H.	Boehm	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology; Associate Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences		Profile	Email		School of Medicine
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		School of Medicine
Larry R.	Churchill	Professor of Medicine; Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics		Profile	Email		School of Medicine
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		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		School of Medicine
Douglas C.	Heimburger	Associate Director for Education and Training, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Professor of Medicine		Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Elizabeth	Heitman	Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor of Anesthesiology		Profile	Email		School of Medicine
George C.	Hill	Professor, Dept. of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology; Levi Watkins, Jr. Professor in Medical Education; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs; Special Assistant to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs	Pediatric Clinical Ethics, Primary Care Pediatrics, Pediatric Weight Management	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Chandra	Osborn	Assistant Professor	Health Disparities, Health Literacy & Numeracy, Diabetes, Medication Adherence, Behavior Change	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Jacquelyn	Pennings	Research Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery; Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society; Core Faculty, Vanderbilt Center for Musculoskeletal Research; Associate Director of Statistics for Center for Research on Men’s Health; Affiliated Faculty, Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt		Profile	Email		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		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		School of Medicine
Sten H.	Vermund	Vice President for Global Health; Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Amos Christie Chair of Global Health; Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology	Epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, HPV, Global Health, International Health, Infectious Disease	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Lynn S.	Walker	Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Adolescent and Young Adult Health	Research Emphasis, Chronic pain in adolescents	Profile	Email		School of Medicine
Carol A.	Etherington	Associate Director of Community Health Initiatives, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health; Associate Professor of Nursing Emerita	Teaches medical, nursing and interdisciplinary groups of graduate students in community health, global health and caring for victims of violence	Profile	Email		School of Nursing
Rolanda	Johnson	Assistant Dean for Academics; Associate Professor	Health promotion of African-Americans, Black racial identity, Genetics & Obesity	Profile	Email		School of Nursing
Jana	Lauderdale	Assistant Dean for Office of Diversity & Inclusion	Health disparities, Native American women’s health, Minority nursing students’ educational issues	Profile	Email		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		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		School of Nursing
Ken	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		School of Nursing

Tennessee Department of Health
Abelardo C. Moncayo
Senior Epidemiologist and State Medical Entomologist; Director of the Vector-Borne Disease Section, Tennessee Department of Health; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
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