Fay Womer, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Division of General Psychiatry

Dr. Fay Womer joined Vanderbilt in 2022. She has longstanding clinical and research interests in psychotic disorders. Her research work has focused on the cerebellum in psychiatric disorders, as well as international collaboration in neuroimaging studies of major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. Through her work, Dr. Womer hopes to contribute to the development of early interventions and more effective treatments in psychotic disorders.

Dr. Womer obtained her medical degree from the University of Connecticut. She completed general psychiatry residency training at Washington University (2007), followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in chronic mental illness at Yale University (2009).