Shannon Braida is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who joined the Department in June 2024. She received her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia (Go Tigers!) in 2018. Shannon's clinical background has been in intensive case management outpatient, mobile crisis intervention, psychiatric inpatient treatment, and private practice. Her main clinical & research focus is within the SPMI community, more specifically, schizophrenia & schizoaffective disorders.

Sarah Nelson joined the Center for Cognitive Medicine in 2024 after graduating from Belmont University’s Doctorate of Nursing Practice program. She functions as the Center for Cognitive Medicine Nurse Practitioner, evaluating participants involved in Dr. Newhouse's studies. Before she became a Nurse Practitioner, she worked at VUMC as a bedside nurse serving geriatric and general adult populations.