Stephanie Spottswood, MD, MSPH

Dr. Spottswood received her Bachelor of Arts degree in education from the University of Michigan and her Master of Science in Public Health and MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency in diagnostic radiology at VUMC in 1991 and fellowship training in pediatric radiology at the Medical College of Virginia in 1992. She studied pediatric nuclear medicine at the Children’s National Medical Center and completed her nuclear medicine fellowship training at the Medical College of Virginia in 1993.

Following academic and private practice careers in Virginia, Dr. Spottswood came to Vanderbilt in 2005 as chief of pediatric nuclear medicine, where she participated in the design of the lodine-131 MIBG radiotherapy space for treating children with intractable neuroblastoma, one of few such treatment facilities in the United States.

She was promoted to professor of Radiology and of Pediatrics in 2012. In 2013, Dr. Spottswood was appointed associate vice-chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the Vanderbilt Department of Radiology. She is currently a professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Emerita.