Kari Edick Cunningham, MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC

Kari
Edick
Cunningham
MSN, RN, PMHNP-BC
Professional Staff
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Kari is a Board-Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner who joined the department in 2024. She received a Bachelor of Science in Communications from the University of Texas at Austin and Master of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University. She completed her behavioral health training at VUMC. Prior to working at Vanderbilt, she worked at a community health clinic in Franklin, TN.

kari.edick@vumc.org

Child and adolescent mood disorders, thought disorders, ADHD, ASD, and trauma.

Courtney Hamilton, MD

Courtney
Hamilton
MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of General Psychiatry
courtney.hamilton@vumc.org

Brooke Becker, MD

Brooke
Becker
MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of General Psychiatry
brooke.becker@vumc.org

reproductive psychiatry, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

Brooke Becker, MD joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2024 after completing General Psychiatry residency at the University of North Carolina, where she served as a Chief Resident, and medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Becker primarily works within the Women's Mental Health program to see perinatal patients from pre-conception to postpartum, as well as other women's mental health concerns related to the menstrual cycle and perimenopause.