Sarah Carpenter joined the department as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner in 2018. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Religion and the Arts and Minor in Photography from Belmont University and her Master’s of Science in Nursing from Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. At VUSN, she was honored to serve as a Cal Turner Fellow for Moral Leadership in the Professions and was awarded the Amy Francis Brown Award for Excellence in Writing. She currently works in Transplant Psychiatry. In 2020, she added on a new role as a Clinical Instructor at VUSN. Prior to her nursing career, Sarah was an avid photographer and has research interest in the expressive therapies, mindfulness, and meaning making.

Education

MSSW, Eastern Michigan University

Stacey Moore graduated with her Master’s degree in Social Work from Eastern Michigan University located in Ypsilanti, MI in 2009.  She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2013. She started her career working in the community mental health system then moving into the acute care setting as well as leadership roles.  Stacey has served as the Associate Program Director for our division since 2019 .  This role provides clinical oversight for social workers, peer recovery coaches, and nurse case managers for the team.  It also provides administrative and operational oversight over all the division service lines as well as with community stakeholders.   

Dr. Jo Ellen Wilson is a Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist, Epidemiologist at Vanderbilt and a Physician Scientist at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) 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 VA GRECC.  

Dr. Wilson's recent research 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"), now serving as the co-Principal Investigator on a trial ready cohort for Down Syndrome and clinical trials using novel therapeutics to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease in middle aged adults with Down Syndrome.  

Dr. Wilson is also passionate about access to mental health care, and she serves as the co-Director for an Office of Rural Health (Veterans Affairs) funded tele-mental health initiative at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.

One of Dr. Wilson’s favorite aspects of her job at Vanderbilt is serving as a clinical educator and mentor.  Dr. Wilson serves as the co-Course Director for the Research Immersion Program, a Research Director (Bench-to-Bedside), small group facilitator for the PLAN protocol development course and is serving as the co-Director for the Psychiatry clerkship experience for the medical school.