Jo Ellen Wilson, MD, PhD, MPH

Dr. Jo Ellen Wilson is a Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist and Epidemiologist with a research focus on acute and chronic forms of brain dysfunction that occur as a part of critical illness and aging. Dr. Wilson completed medical school, general adult psychiatry residency and a consultation liaison psychiatry fellowship at Vanderbilt. After joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2014, Dr. Wilson completed a master's degree in public health (MPH; 2016); post-doctoral research fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) (2017); and PhD in Epidemiology (2023). Dr. Wilson's work has focused on acute brain dysfunction (catatonia, delirium, and coma) in the setting of critical illness in her prospective cohort study ("Delirium and Catatonia Prospective Cohort Study") and behavioral manifestations of brain disorders (including Alzheimer's disease) in Down syndrome. Dr. Wilson runs a clinic that is devoted to caring for the psychiatric, behavioral and cognitive needs of individuals with Down syndrome at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. Dr. Wilson serves as the co-principal investigator for the Trial Ready Cohort for Down Syndrome (TRC-DS) and the principal investigator for therapeutic clinical trials for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome (ABATE and HERO studies) in the Center for Cognitive Medicine.