Edwin Williamson, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Affiliate Faculty, Department of African American and Diaspora Studies
Village at Vanderbilt
1500 21st Ave South, Suite 2200
Nashville
Tennessee
37212

Dr. Williamson is a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist and the Program Director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program at Vanderbilt. His interests include disruptive behavior disorders and the training path for future child psychiatrists.   Dr. Williamson graduated from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed a residency in Pediatrics at Duke, general psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. 

Clinical Description

Dr. Williamson specializes in disruptive behavior disorders and conflict around developmental transitions.    

Research Description

Dr. Williamson studies training and education in Psychiatry, as well as effective treatments for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.