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. 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.

Dr. James McFerrin offers psychiatric assessment and support in the Worklife Connections-EAP. His clinical interests are General adult psychiatry in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

He has 34 years of private practice and part-time VAMC inpatient and outpatient clinics as a veteran; general psychiatry experience also teaching residents and students.

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Research Description

Dr. McHugo completed her PhD in Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University with David Zald, PhD. Her graduate work focused on fMRI analysis of the neural systems mediating emotion-attention interactions in healthy adults and individuals with amygdala and orbitofrontal lesions. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Vanderbilt Psychotic Disorders Program with Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc.

Dr. McHugo is researching longitudinal changes in brain structure and function in early psychosis.
 

Selected Publications

• Theiss JD, Ridgewell C, McHugo M, Heckers S, Blackford JU. Manual segmentation of the human bed nucleus of the stria terminalis using 3T MRI. Neuroimage [print-electronic]. 2017 Feb 2/1/2017; 146: 288-92. PMID: 27876653, PMCID: PMC5358094, PII: S1053-8119(16)30665-6, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.11.047, ISSN: 1095-9572.

  Ridgewell C, Blackford JU, McHugo M, Heckers S. Personality traits predicting quality of life and overall functioning in schizophrenia. Schizophr. Res [print-electronic]. 2017 Apr; 182: 19-23. PMID: 27746053, PMCID: PMC5376216, PII: S0920-9964(16)30451-0, DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2016.10.007, ISSN: 1573-2509.

• McHugo M, Rogers BP, Talati P, Woodward ND, Heckers S. Increased Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations but Normal Hippocampal-Default Mode Network Connectivity in Schizophrenia. Front Psychiatry. 2015; 6: 92. PMID: 26157396, PMCID: PMC4478381, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00092, ISSN: 1664-0640.

• McHugo M, Olatunji BO, Zald DH. The emotional attentional blink: what we know so far. Front Hum Neurosci. 2013; 7: 151. PMID: 23630482, PMCID: PMC3632779, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00151, ISSN: 1662-5161.

  Olatunji BO, Armstrong T, McHugo M, Zald DH. Heightened attentional capture by threat in veterans with PTSD. J Abnorm Psychol [print-electronic]. 2013 May; 122(2): 397-405. PMID: 23148782, PMCID: PMC4104529, PII: 2012-30030-001, DOI: 10.1037/a0030440, ISSN: 1939-1846.

  Edmiston EK, McHugo M, Dukic MS, Smith SD, Abou-Khalil B, Eggers E, Zald DH. Enhanced visual cortical activation for emotional stimuli is preserved in patients with unilateral amygdala resection. J. Neurosci. 2013 Jul 7/3/2013; 33(27): 11023-31. PMID: 23825407, PMCID: PMC3718371, PII: 33/27/11023, DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0401-13.2013, ISSN: 1529-2401.

• Piech RM, McHugo M, Smith SD, Dukic MS, Van Der Meer J, Abou-Khalil B, Most SB, Zald DH. Attentional capture by emotional stimuli is preserved in patients with amygdala lesions. Neuropsychologia [print-electronic]. 2011 Oct; 49(12): 3314-9. PMID: 21884712, PMCID: PMC3192286, PII: S0028-3932(11)00371-X, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.004, ISSN: 1873-3514.

• Piech RM, McHugo M, Smith SD, Dukic MS, Van Der Meer J, Abou-Khalil B, Zald DH. Fear-enhanced visual search persists after amygdala lesions. Neuropsychologia [print-electronic]. 2010 Oct; 48(12): 3430-5. PMID: 20637217, PMCID: PMC2949448, PII: S0028-3932(10)00304-0, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.009, ISSN: 1873-3514.

• Zald DH, Cowan RL, Riccardi P, Baldwin RM, Ansari MS, Li R, Shelby ES, Smith CE, McHugo M, Kessler RM. Midbrain dopamine receptor availability is inversely associated with novelty-seeking traits in humans. J. Neurosci. 2008 Dec 12/31/2008; 28(53): 14372-8. PMID: 19118170, PMCID: PMC2748420, PII: 28/53/14372, DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2423-08.2008, ISSN: 1529-2401.

Dr. Christopher Maley has been a member of the faculty since 2010. His clinical focus is on inpatient adult psychiatry and serving as a provider for the electroconvulsive therapy service.

Helen Hatfield is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, and has been a member of the faculty since 2003. Helen provides Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for adult patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, compulsive hoarding, trichotillomania, compulsive skin picking, and other disorders of impulse control. She is a graduate of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation’s Behavioral Therapy Training Institute.

Kathryn Davidson is a Nashville native. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She continued her education at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing where she completed her Master’s of Science in Nursing specializing in Psychiatric Mental Health. While at VUSN she was inducted in the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Kathryn began her career as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner working at a community mental health center in Nashville and then subsequently joined the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Vanderbilt in 2019. She currently sees patients in the Transplant Psychiatry Clinic doing both inpatient and outpatient work. Kathryn also serves as a clinical instructor, student preceptor, and student advisor at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

Dr. Daunis is originally from New Orleans and attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where he completed his undergraduate degree in microbiology. From there, he attended medical school at LSU in Shreveport, LA followed by psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At MGH, he served as chief resident of the consult service followed by completion of his fellowship in consult-liaison psychiatry in 2019. Additionally, he completed a fellowship in bioethics at Harvard Medical School during his time in residency. He joined Vanderbilt in 2019 and currently serves as an attending on the VUMC Adult Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry service and as the psychiatric liaison to the VUMC Cardiac Transplant Team. Daniel's academic and clinical interests include bioethics, neurocognitive disorders, cardiac disease, and transplant psychiatry.    

Education

MD, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
BS, Louisiana State University (Microbiology) 

Postgraduate Training

Intern in Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Resident in Adult Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital
Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Fellowship in Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

Areas of Clinical Expertise

Psychosomatic Medicine, Neuropsychiatry, Cardiac Transplantation

Research interests

Cardiac Psychiatry, Bioethics

Representative publications

1.      Daunis D, Stern T. Facing Heart Disease: A Guide for Psychiatric Clinicians. Psychiatric Annals. 2019; 49(2):55-59.

2.      Daunis D. Psychotic Disorders. In: Kiefer MM, Chong CR, editors. Pocket Primary Care: A Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. 2018: 1116.

3.      Celano CM, Daunis DJ, Lokko HN, Campbell KA, Huffman JC. Anxiety disorders and cardiovascular disease. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2016 Nov; 18 (11):101.