In the News

D. Catherine Fuchs, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, was among a team of researchers who developed "The Preschool Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU: Valid and Reliable Delirium Monitoring for Critically Ill Infants and Children." The paper will be published in the journal Critical Care Medicine and is available to review online ahead of print.

Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, recently spoke to the members of the Nashville chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Dr. Finlayson presented a talk titled "Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Health Disorders on Nov. 18 at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.

Peter R. Martin, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Director of the Vanderbilt Addiction Center, and Reid Finlayson, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, serves as authors for the paper "Opioid Use Disorder During Pregnancy in Tennessee: Expediency vs. Science," recently published online ahead of print in The American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse.  Click here to read the paper online.

Volney P. Gay, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Religious Studies, and Anthropology, has been asked by the Huffington Post to blog on the topics of psychology and religion. Dr. Gay's blogs will be published every two to three weeks. Two of his recent blog posts may be found here and here.  

VUMC has received a $9.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to test the effectiveness of a transdermal nicotine patch in improving memory loss in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease.

Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and her lab members recently had one of their posters covered by Spectrum News (a press outlet associated with the Simons Foundation for Research) during the group's participation on the 2015 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Chicago recently.

Kimberly Brown, Ph.D. ABPP, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was recently invited to serve on the next term of the National American Psychological Association's Council of Specialties.  The appointment is from 2016 to 2019.   Brown also received board certification in Forensic Psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP).

Jeffrey Stovall, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, was recently interviewed by Psychiatric News about his experience working with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) in New Orleans, LA, following Hurricane Katrina.  August 2015 marks 10 years since the Category-5 hurricane damaged and/or destroyed vast swaths of the coastal city.

Monicah Muhomba, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, recently received an American Psychological Association, Division 17, SCUCC 2015 Outstanding Contribution to Counseling Center Work Award due to the depth and breadth of her work as a counseling center professional and the cutting-edge nature of the data-driven Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) program at the Vanderbilt University Psychological & Counseling Center.