Dr. Jeffrey Stovall joined the faculty in 2008. He has worked in community psychiatry and in primary medical settings, and consulted with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Vietnam. His areas of academic interest include the development of community based systems of care for individuals with severe mental illness, early episode psychosis and schizophrenia.

Dr. Skikic has been at Vanderbilt since 2009, completing both her medical degree and her general psychiatry residency at Vanderbilt University and associated medical center. She joined the Vanderbilt Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences upon her training completion in 2016, and has been a part of the residency training office, currently serving as the director of the psychiatry residency program. Clinically, she has been dedicated to the care of individuals who experience psychosis both in inpatient and outpatient settings with a primary focus on recovery and functional re-engagement.    

Clinical Description

Care of individuals with psychotic disorders at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the Vanderbilt Early Psychosis Program outpatient clinic. The latter focuses on a supportive and multidisciplinary model of care that prioritizes patient well-being and functional recovery.    

Research Description

Dr. Skikic is involved in supporting the program's research efforts in advancing our understanding of the neurobiology and medical workup of individuals who experience psychosis. Academically, she is active in the development and dissemination of neuroscience-based educational materials at the institutional and national levels.    

Dr. Elizabeth Shultz joined the faculty in 2013 as one of the adult inpatient physicians. Her interests include teaching, neuromodulation (ECT and TMS), LGBTQ+ mental health, perinatal psychiatry, and adult inpatient psychiatric care.

Dr. Saxena completed his adult psychiatry residency training at Vanderbilt in 2015 and rejoined the team in 2019 as the Medical Director of Hospital Services. He oversees the 106 bed Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and the partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programs.

Clinical Description

Primary inpatient clinical work while managing the hospital services which include Adult, Child/Adolescent, Partial Hospital & IOPs, Neuromodulation, PAS, and Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital.    

Dr. Eric Rueth attended undergrad at Duke University with double major in biology with concentration in neuroscience and religion (minor in complexity theory physics). Medical school completed at Emory University School of Medicine. Psychiatric residency completed in NYC through St. Luke's-Roosevelt, university hospitals of Columbia University. 

Dr. Rueth's clinical focus has been specifically in the field of emergency psychiatry. He began his career in the King's County HC CPEP (comprehensive psychiatric emergency program) after which he became the medical director of emergency psychiatry for NYU at Woodhull Hospital prior to moving to Nashville in 2016 when the Psychiatric Assessment Service at VPH was started, for which he currently serves as medical director.

Dr. Ira Phillips has been a member of the faculty since 2014. He uses a blend of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology to help patients with mood, anxiety, personality, and psychotic disorders. He is particularly interested in helping those wanting to understand the origin of recurring life problems. He also teaches psychotherapy to psychiatry residents at various levels of training.

Dr. Phillips is a Psychiatrist on the Faculty and Physician Wellness Program (FPWP) team at Vanderbilt Work/Life Connections-EAP.

Cory Myers has been a member of the faculty since 2012. He is an Assistant in Psychiatry for the Consultation-Liaison Service at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Angela Muterspaugh is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and became a faculty member in October 2012. Angela began her work with Vanderbilt in July 2007 at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital providing group therapy. She went on to work with the community mental health center at Vanderbilt in December 2009, providing individual and group therapy at the Adult Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. Currently, she provides individual therapy, utilizing modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy and prolonged exposure therapy.

Dr. Stephen Montgomery has been a member of the faculty since 2002 - as a member of the primary faculty until 2025, when he moved to the volunteer faculty. He is board certified in both general adult psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. Forensic psychiatry is the medical sub-specialty that focuses on the many areas in which psychiatry is applied to legal issues. Dr. Montgomery completed his psychiatric residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1998. He then completed his forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Rochester in 1999. Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Dr. Montgomery worked at two state forensic hospitals in California and Washington state treating and evaluating patients found not guilty by reason of insanity and incompetent to stand trial. Dr. Montgomery is the Director of Vanderbilt Forensic Psychiatry.

Dr. Montgomery has developed and maintained an active adult outpatient psychiatric practice since 2002. He treats the full spectrum of psychiatric conditions including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders, posttraumatic tress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and dementia. His forensic psychiatric practice includes evaluations in both criminal cases and civil litigation regarding issues such as: insanity, competency to stand trial, diminished capacity, false confessions, Workers' Compensation, fitness for duty evaluations, disability, parenting, personal injury, medical malpractice, and psychosexual evaluations. Dr. Montgomery has been qualified as an expert witness and testified in over one hundred cases in multiple states and jurisdictions.

Dr. Andrew Michel joined the Vanderbilt faculty as Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in 2009. His style of practice is relational in nature, including the use of insight-oriented therapy in caring for those suffering with psychiatric illness. His current clinical work is with veterans at the VA Medical Center where he works in the outpatient mental health clinic. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Michel serves as a supervisor to psychiatric residents in training at the VA outpatient clinic and also as a case based facilitator in Vanderbilt's Curriculum 2.0 in the Foundations of Medical Knowledge year. Dr. Michel's scholarship has focused on engaging clinical medicine (especially psychiatry) from a virtue ethics perspective.