Jeffrey G. Stovall, MD

Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Global Health Research Interests: Psychiatry, Refugee and Immigrant Health

Dr. Stovall joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2008 as the Residency Training Director for the adult psychiatry program. He has worked for years in community psychiatry and primary medical settings with an emphasis on the treatment of serious mental illness, the integration of psychiatric and medical care, homelessness, and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has worked extensively with refugees in the United States and has consulted with Physicians for Human Rights in evaluating and treating victims of torture who are applying for asylum. He consulted with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Vietnam for five years to develop Family Medicine Residency Training programs at medical schools in Hanoi, Hue, Thai Nguyen, and Ho Chi Minh City. His work with the Ministry of Health focused on training primary care physicians to recognize and treat psychiatric disorders. He is the Medical Director of the Partial Hospital Program, and a clinician in the Psychosis Clinic at Vanderbilt. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Shade Tree Clinic. 

Education

MD, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Health
BA, Carleton College