Jo Ellen Wilson, M.D.,Ph.D.

Dr. Jo Ellen Wilson is a Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist and Epidemiologist with a research focus on acute and chronic forms of brain dysfunction that occurs 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 in public health (MPH; 2016), PhD in Epidemiology (2023), and post-doctoral research fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC).  Dr. Wilson's recent 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 is excited to turn her efforts to studying Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Center for Cognitive Medicine.