Dennis Schmidt Ph.D.
dennis.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu

Associate Research Professor of Psychiatry

I am a fisherman.
I will always be a fisherman.
It's not something I do,
It is who I am.
Fishing is not an escape.
It is where I belong,
where I am supposed to be.
It is not a place,
but a lifelong journey.
It is a passage I learned as a youth,
and that I gladly share with others.

When you understand all of this,
you will know me,
and we will fish together.