Emma Finan is a proud West of Ireland native. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an RN–BC. (Board Certified in Mental Health) She has worked at VPH in several key roles since 1998, Emma joined the Department of Psychiatry faculty in 2011 where she is the primary psychotherapist in the Psychosis Clinic. She holds additional training in CBT specific to Psychosis in addition to providing Family Therapy. Her entire career has been in Mental Health bringing rich experience to the clinic from Community Mental Health/Crisis Intervention Teams at Guys Hospital, London, UK. Emma also fulfills a liaison role between the Inpatient Psychosis Teams and Outpatient Teams to ensure smooth transition for all parties involved.

Dr. Nathaniel Clark joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2007. He serves as the Executive Medical Director of Adult Ambulatory Services and Director of the Division of General Psychiatry. His primary clinical role is to serve as an inpatient psychiatrist treating adults experiencing psychotic and mood disorders. He was the lead clinician in the establishment and development of the Electroconvulsive Therapy Service at Vanderbilt, and, with the addition of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, served as the Medical Director of the renamed Neuromodulation Service until 2016.

He has received several major teaching awards and distinctions from the Department of Psychiatry and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty, he was an inpatient psychiatrist at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, and completed his general psychiatry residency at Boston University.

Dr. Amison joined the faculty in 2010.

She is the clerkship director for Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Dr. Amison's interests are community psychiatry and psychotic disorders.

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.    

Dr. Tanguturi has been a member of the faculty since 2017. He is the Assistant Medical Director for the Inpatient Child and Adolescent psychiatric unit at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) and also works as an attending on the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry consult service at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. In addition he also serves as an investigator at the MEND (Medical Exploration of Neuro-developmental Disorders) clinic, focused on clinical trials. He is interested in child and adolescent mental health, hospital based psychiatry, epidemiology and systems of care issues related to child mental health.

Selected Publications

• Tanguturi Y, Bodic M, Taub A, Homel P, Jacob T. Suicide Risk Assessment by Residents: Deficiencies of Documentation. Acad Psychiatry [print-electronic]. 2017 Aug; 41(4): 513-9. PMID: 28083763, PII: 10.1007/s40596-016-0644-6, DOI: 10.1007/s40596-016-0644-6, ISSN: 1545-7230.

• Springer AE, Tanguturi Y, Ranjit N, Skala KA, Kelder SH. Physical activity during recess in low-income third-grade Texas students. Am J Health Behav. 2013 May; 37(3): 318-24. PMID: 23985178, PMCID: PMC3761405, DOI: 10.5993/AJHB.37.3.4, ISSN: 1945-7359.

Research Description

Dr. Stambaugh's research interests include anxiety and depression among children and the social and emotional needs of gifted students.

Clinical Interest

Dr. Stambaugh joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2008. His primary focus is mental health counseling with pediatric clients who need support with symptoms such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, and family issues. He has previously served as a therapist and center director at a community agency as well as a managing therapist in a private practice.

Dr. Sparks is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who joined the faculty in 2017. From Vanderbilt University, she received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (2014), Master of Science in Nursing (2016), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (2020).
She is the Clinical Director of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital’s Psychiatric Assessment Service (PAS), providing care for emergent behavioral health needs. She is also the Director of Psychiatry Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), dedicating time to recruitment, training, and engagement of the Psychiatry APPs throughout Vanderbilt Health.

 

Dr. Donald Pierce has been a member of the faculty since 2019. He is an attending psychiatrist with the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consult Service at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and the Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital.    

Clinical Description

Pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry, adolescent mental health, resident and medical student education, primary care behavioral health education