 Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair
Dr. Heckers graduated from Medical School at the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1988. He completed his clinical training in Psychiatry between 1993 and 1997 at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, and obtained a Master in Medical Sciences degree from Harvard Medical School in 2000. Dr. Heckers was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Program at McLean Hospital in Belmont, MA, when he accepted the offer to assume the Chair of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in 2006.
Dr. Heckers studies the neural basis of psychiatric disorders. He is particularly interested in the disease mechanisms of two psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The Heckers laboratory combines neuroimaging experiments of brain structure and function in patients with basic research studies of the cellular and molecular basis of psychosis. This approach allows Dr. Heckers to test hypotheses about the neural basis of psychosis at the level of brain circuits as well as neurons and genes.
Dr. Heckers has published more than 100 articles and book chapters and is frequently teaching medical students, physicians, and the lay public. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Young Investigator Award from the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, the Dr. Paul Janssen Schizophrenia Research Award, and the A.E. Bennett Award. He has been honored twice by the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Residents with the Teacher of the Year award.
Dr. Heckers is the Associate Editor of the Archives of General Psychiatry and is a member of the Scientific Council of the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.
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Site Principal Investigators
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jin H. Han, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Neuropsychology and Long-Term Follow Up
Pratik Pandharipande, MD, MSCI
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
E. Wesley Ely,MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Critical Care
Associate Director of Aging Research, VA GRECC
Senior Advisors
Gordon R. Bernard, MD
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Robert S. Dittus, MD, MPH
Div Chief Gen Medicine, Director GRECC
Research Coordinators
Leanne Boehm, MSN, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Joyce Okahashi, RN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Jan Dunn, RN, MSN, CCRN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Cayce Strength, RN, BSN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Brenda Truman Pun, RN, MSN, ACNP
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Program Clinical Manager
Mitzi W. Baker, RN, MSN
Critical Care Research Nurse
Neuropsychology
Sharon M. Gordon, PsyD
Geriatric Neuropsychology, GRECC
James C. Jackson, PsyD
Neuropsychology
Lauren Hardy, MA
Research Analyst II
Amy Lipsey, MA, LPC-MHSP
Licensed Professional Counselor
Sleep
Paula Watson, MD
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Brandi Cleaver, RPSGT
Polysomnographic Technician
Peter Howard, RPSGT, AA
Sleep Research Core Manager
Beth Malow, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Neurology
Kimberly Vigil
Polysomnographic Technician
Neuroimaging
Max Gunther, PhD
Neuroimaging & Neuropsychology Research Instructor
John Gore, PhD
Neuroimaging, FMRI, Director of VUIIS
Baxter Rogers, PhD
Physicist
Psychiatry
Stephan Heckers, MD, MSc
Psychiatry Department Chair
D. Catherine Fuchs, MD
Pediatric Psychiatry
Pediatric Delirium
Heidi Smith, MD, MSCI, FAAP
Pediatric Intensive Care
Pam Berry
Pediatric Critical Care Nurse
Biostatisticians
Ayumi Shintani PhD, MPH
Chief ICU Delirium Biostatistician
Jennifer Thompson, MPH
Analyst, Biostatistics
Theodore Speroff, PhD
Psychometrics, Statistician, GRECC
Renee Torres, MS
Biostatistician
Research Fellows
Michael Hooper, MD
Research Fellow
Matthew King, MD
Research Fellow
Alessandro Morandi, MD
Geriatrician & Research Fellow
Jennifer K. Clune, MD
Chief Resident
ICU Outcomes and Patient Safety
Eduard E. Vasilevskis, M.D.
Hospital Medicine and Center for Health Services Research
Administrative
Stephanie Hamilton, BA
Administrative Assistant
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