Center for Research Development & Scholarship Program
Faculty & Staff
To learn more about an individual's experience and research, click on the faculty member's name.
Director
Ann Minnick
Julia Eleanor Chenault Professor of Nursing
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Co-Director, Ph.D. in Nursing Science Program
415 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.2998
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: ann.minnick@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty
Peter I. Buerhaus
Valere Potter Distinguished Professor of Nursing
Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Health Workforce Studies
Institute for Medicine and Public Health
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Sixth Floor, Suite 600
2525 West End Ave.
Phone: 615.936.8312
Email: peter.buerhaus@vanderbilt.edu
Tom H. Cook
Assistant Professor
School Health Director,
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
512 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.3296
Fax: 615.343.3998
Email: tom.cook@vanderbilt.edu
Karen D'Apolito
Director, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program
Professor
420 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.2682
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: karen.dapolito@vanderbilt.edu
Mary Dietrich
Research Associate Professor, Statistician
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry
410 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.1620
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: mary.dietrich@vanderbilt.edu
Terrah Foster
Assistant Professor
418 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.6025
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: terrah.l.foster@vanderbilt.edu
Mary Jo Gilmer
Professor
417 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.0938
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: maryjo.gilmer@vanderbilt.edu
Sharon Karp
Assistant Professor
411 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.5951
Fax: 615.936.3601
Email: sharon.karp@vanderbilt.edu
Melanie Lutenbacher
Associate Professor
524 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.3314
Fax: 615.343.7505
Email: melanie.lutenbacher@vanderbilt.edu
Anne Miller
Assistant Professor
418 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.936.7349
Fax: 615.936.7373
Email: anne.miller@vanderbilt.edu
Lorraine Mion
Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing
424 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.7098
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: lorraine.c.mion@vanderbilt.edu
Shelagh A. Mulvaney
Assistant Professor
425 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.322.1198
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: shelagh.mulvaney@vanderbilt.edu
Sheila Ridner
Professor
525 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.322.0831
Fax: 615.343.7788
Email: sheila.ridner@vanderbilt.edu
Vaughn G. Sinclair
Professor
519 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.2253
Fax: 615.343.7788
Email: vaughn.sinclair@vanderbilt.edu
Ken Wallston
Professor of Psychology
421 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.3317
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: ken.wallston@vanderbilt.edu
Nancy Wells
Research Professor
Director VUMC Nursing Research
TT-0102 MCN
Phone: 615.322.6184
Fax: 615.322.3490
Email: nancy.wells@vanderbilt.edu
Support Staff
Jennifer Brownlow II
Administrative Assistant
405 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.936.1719
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: jennifer.brownlow@vanderbilt.edu
Brenda Cornett Compton
Administrative Manager
413 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.322.1719
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: brenda.cornett@vanderbilt.edu
Beth Donaghey
Program Manager
423 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.3200
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: beth.donaghey@vanderbilt.edu
Pammy Doss
Administrative Assistant
404 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.1434
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: Pamela.Doss@vanderbilt.edu
Dianne L. Eberhard
Grants Manager
407 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.2903
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: dianne.eberhard@vanderbilt.edu
Deborah Fertitta
Administrative Assistant III
403 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.322.8910
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: deborah.fertitta@vanderbilt.edu
Nancy A. Kidd
Research Assistant
526 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.5992
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: nancy.kidd@vanderbilt.edu
Darlene Pope
Administrative Assistant
422 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.9878
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: darlene.d.pope@vanderbilt.edu
Sharon B. Stinson
Administrative Associate
to the Senior Associate Dean, Research
414 Godchaux Hall
Phone: 615.343.7618
Fax: 615.343.5898
Email: sharon.stinson@vanderbilt.edu
