Dr .Wilson previously served as the Director of the Psychiatry Consultation Service and developed the fellowship for Psychosomatic Medicine. Currently she is the Medical Director of Emergency Psychiatry and has joint appointments in Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine.

Jessica is a Board-Certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Lifespan) who joined the faculty in 2016 after working at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital for five years as a Board-Certified Registered Nurse. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Belmont University and her Master of Science in Nursing and then Doctor of Nursing Practice from Vanderbilt University. She works for Homeless Health Services and provides psychiatric consultations for Vanderbilt Hospital.

Dr. Jonathan Smith Joined the faculty in 2018 after completing a General Adult Psychiatry Residency and Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He serves as the Medical Director for the Vanderbilt University Adult Hospital Psychiatry Services, including inpatient behavioral health consultation services and embedded teams. He is also the Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship and site supervisor for medical students, psychiatry residents, and other trainees rotating within the medical center consultation services.  

Dr. Smith's clinical focus is consultation-liaison psychiatry, which is the psychiatric subspecialty focused on the evaluation and management of patients with medical illness who are experiencing behavioral health problems. He works collaboratively with many medical specialties including internal medicine, neurology, critical care, burn and trauma, oncology, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery to ensure patients received effective and compassionate care for both medical and behavioral problems. 
 

Dr. Jeffrey Stovall joined the faculty in 2008. He has worked in community psychiatry and in primary medical settings, and consulted with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Vietnam. His areas of academic interest include the development of community based systems of care for individuals with severe mental illness, early episode psychosis and schizophrenia.

Dr. Skikic has been at Vanderbilt since 2009, completing both her medical degree and her general psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt University and associated medical center. She joined the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences upon her training completion in 2016, and has been a part of the residency training office, currently serving as the director of the psychiatry residency program. Clinically, she has been dedicated to the care of individuals who experience psychosis both in inpatient and outpatient settings with a primary focus on recovery and functional re-engagement.    

Clinical Description

Care of individuals with psychotic disorders at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Early Psychosis Program outpatient clinic. The latter focuses on a supportive and multidisciplinary model of care that prioritizes patient well-being and functional recovery.    

Research Description

Dr. Skikic is involved in supporting the program's research efforts in advancing our understanding of the neurobiology and medical workup of individuals who experience psychosis. Academically, she is active in the development and dissemination of neuroscience-based educational materials at the institutional and national levels.    

Dr. Elizabeth Shultz joined the faculty in 2013 as one of the adult inpatient physicians. Her interests include teaching, neuromodulation (ECT and TMS), LGBTQ+ mental health, perinatal psychiatry, and adult inpatient psychiatric care.

Dr. Saxena completed his adult psychiatry residency training at Vanderbilt in 2015 and rejoined the team in 2019 as the Medical Director of Hospital Services. He oversees the 106 bed Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs.

Clinical Description

Primary inpatient clinical work while managing the hospital services which include Adult, Child/Adolescent, Partial Hospital & IOPs, Neuromodulation, PAS, and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital.    

Dr. Eric Rueth attended undergrad at Duke University with double major in biology with concentration in neuroscience and religion (minor in complexity theory physics). Medical school completed at Emory University School of Medicine. Psychiatric residency completed in NYC through St. Luke's-Roosevelt, university hospitals of Columbia University. 

Dr. Rueth's clinical focus has been specifically in the field of emergency psychiatry. He began his career in the King's County HC CPEP (comprehensive psychiatric emergency program) after which he became the medical director of emergency psychiatry for NYU at Woodhull Hospital prior to moving to Nashville in 2016 when the Psychiatric Assessment Service at VPH was started, for which he currently serves as medical director.

Dr. Ira Phillips has been a member of the faculty since 2014. He uses a blend of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology to help patients with mood, anxiety, personality, and psychotic disorders. He is particularly interested in helping those wanting to understand the origin of recurring life problems. He also teaches psychotherapy to psychiatry residents at various levels of training.

Dr. Phillips is a Psychiatrist on the Faculty and Physician Wellness Program (FPWP) team at Vanderbilt Work/Life Connections-EAP.

Cory Myers has been a member of the faculty since 2012. He is an Assistant in Psychiatry for the Consultation-Liaison Service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.