Provider Spotlight

Kristen Pilote is a Staff Nurse Practitioner in the Department of Neurology’s stroke and cognitive divisions at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She provides care to patients recovering from stroke in the outpatient clinic setting, as well as in the brain health clinic and post-acute COVID clinic.

Prior to her position at Vanderbilt, she worked as a Neurohospitalist Nurse Practitioner at Saint Thomas Medical Center in Nashville. She also served as a Primary Care Provider at Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee, IA, as well as a staff nurse at Cape Fear Medical Center in Fayetteville, NC and VUMC.

Kristen earned her MSN and Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner certification from Vanderbilt University. She earned her BSN from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA.

James McGuirk, MD is Assistant Professor of Neurology in the Sleep Medicine Division. He is board certified in Neurology and sees adult patients with a wide range of sleep disorders in his clinic as well as general neurology patients in the hospital on the inpatient consult services. He reads sleep studies and has experience with telemedicine as well. He was recently appointed by the governor to serve on the TN state polysomnography committee, helping to oversee the rules and regulations regarding the proper administration of sleep studies and credentialing of polysomnography technologists. Prior to working at Vanderbilt, Dr. McGuirk trained at Vanderbilt University, where he completed his residency and then completed his sleep fellowship in June 2021.

Lindsay Malatesta, MD is an assistant professor in the Neuromuscular Division and sees both neuromuscular patients as well as those that may require botulinum toxin injections. She also has Veterans Affairs responsibilities.  Dr. Malatesta trained at the University of Arkansas where she completed her residency and went on to complete a neuromuscular fellowship at Vanderbilt in June 2021.

Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Britt Stone is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology’s Movement Disorders division at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She manages adult movement disorder patients, including patients that require botulinum toxin injections and programming for deep brain stimulation, as well as patients in the Huntington’s disease clinic. She has been a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology since 2014. She is also a member of the American Herbalist Guild, the Movement Disorders Society, and the American Association of Neurologists.

In addition to her clinical responsibilities, Dr. Stone holds a number of professional leadership positions at VUMC and elsewhere. She is part of the Physician Council for Clinical Service Excellence, the Early Career Council, and the Clinical Operations Director for VUMC’s main campus neurology clinics. She is also part of the Parkinson’s Foundation Fellowship Review Committee, a member of the Advisory Board at Boston Scientific, and an Expert Panelist for the Texas Medical Board. Dr. Stone is currently pursuing an Integrative Medicine Fellowship with the Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine in Tucson, AZ.

Prior to her current position at VUMC, Dr. Stone worked as a neurologist and movement disorders specialist at Baylor Scott & White Healthcare in Round Rock, TX. She trained at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed neurology residency. She subsequently completed a movement disorders fellowship at Langone Medical Center in New York City. She earned her M.D. from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, and her B.S. in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University.