Kira Knight MSN, APRN, PMHMP-BC

Professional Staff

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Division of General Psychiatry

Kira Knight is a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who joined the department in 2021 and works within the division of General Psychiatry. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from Maryville University in 2020. Her career as a PMHNP began in Washington State at a psychiatric hospital before coming to Vanderbilt.

Clinical Interests

Her clinical background is primarily inpatient with a focus on medically fragile and acutely mentally ill patients requiring involuntary psychiatric treatment as well as co-occurring addiction services.