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Our department includes more than 80 primary full-time faculty members, more than 25 secondary full-time faculty members and more than 100 volunteer faculty members.
The primary full-time faculty members are engaged in psychiatric research and patient care and many of them teach students, residents and fellows at Vanderbilt Medical School. Among them are internationally recognized experts in the diagnosis and treatment of substance use, mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.
The secondary full-time faculty members hold a primary appointment in another department at Vanderbilt University (Medical School, Arts & Sciences, Peabody College, Law School) and greatly enhance the scholarship of our department through scientific collaborations and teaching.
The volunteer faculty members are mental health clinicians (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses) in the Nashville area, who support the teaching in our department with their wide-ranging expertise. The volunteer faculty members also include a few academic psychiatrists at other institutions who hold an adjunct appointment in our department.
All active faculty members and all alumni of our faculty and training programs are members of the Luton Society, a professional society associated with the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry.
