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Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC

Sharon M. Gordon is a clinical Neuropsychologist with special interests in geriatrics, who conducts and participates in patient-oriented, health services research as an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is one of the Vanderbilt Coordinating Center Project Managers where she is involved in the creation and design of studies, grant writing, data collection, analysis of data and communication of results. She is Chief of Psychology Service for the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System and a faculty member for the VA Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research and Education Center (GRECC). Dr. Gordon also is on the faculty at Meharry Medical College and Trevecca Nazarene University. She graduated from Albion College, in Albion, Michigan, with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and earned her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University. Her doctorate in psychology was completed at Antioch/New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire and her pre-doctoral internship training was at the Memphis VA with a specialty in neuropsychology. Dr. Gordon’s post-doctoral training in geriatrics and neuropsychology was completed at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Her research has focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill patients with a special emphasis on delirium and neuropsychological impairment in older survivors of critical illness. For more details of her work, please contact her for a copy of her current Curriculum Vitae.

Contact Information

Office: (615) 936-2823
Fax: (615) 936-1269

 

Site Principal Investigators

Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine

James C. Jackson, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care

E. Wesley Ely,MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC

Senior Advisors

Gordon R. Bernard, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC

Research Coordinators

Leanne Boehm, MSN, RN, ACNS-BC
Critical Care Research Nurse

Joyce Okahashi, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse

Cayce Strength, RN, BSN
Critical Care Research Nurse

Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Program Clinical Manager

Aimee Hoskins, RN, BSN
Research Nurse

Anesthesiology

Christopher G. Hughes, MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Elizabeth Card, RN, CPAN, CCRP
Research Nurse IV

Neuropsychology

Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC

Amy Lipsey Kiehl, MA, LPC-MHSP
Research Coordinator

Hillary Warrington, MS
Research Analyst II

Lindsay Anderson, MSW
Research Analyst III

Sleep

Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology

Neuroimaging

John Gore, PhD
Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS

Baxter Rogers, PhD
Physicist

Psychiatry

Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair

D. Catherine Fuchs, MD
Pediatric Psychiatry

Emergency Department

Jin H. Han, MD, MSC
Assistant Professor

Pediatric Delirium

Ty Berutti, MD, MS, MS
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Critical Care

Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care

Emily Brink, RN, BSN
Research Nurse III

Biostatisticians

Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician

Amy J. Graves, SM, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics

Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics

Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC

Research Fellows

Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow

Nathan E. Brummel, MD
Clinical Fellow in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Medicine

ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety

Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research

Laboratory

Gillian Sills, BS
Research Assistant

Pharmacy

Joanna L. Stollings, PharmD, BCPS
Medical Intensive Care Unit Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Administrative

Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant

Bill Pojedinec, BS
Program Administrative Manager

 

 

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