Assistant Professor, Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Patient Care Emphasis: Inpatient psychiatry, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Pediatric Psychopharmacology
J. Richard Navarre, II, M.D., is an assistant professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He is the clinical director of the Child Unit of the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital, an eight bed unit for children 4 to 13 years of age who present with severe psychiatric disorders. He is also the attending physician on the Child Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service. Navarre earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a residency in Adult Psychiatry at Emory University. He completed a fellowship in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. Navarre sees children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and co-morbid psychiatric symptoms at The Center for Child Development. His areas of clinical expertise are in inpatient psychiatry, autism spectrum disorders and pediatric psychopharmacology. His research interests are in psychopharmacological treatment of autism spectrum disorders.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Seth Sonali, M.D., is an assistant professor of Psychiatry at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She earned her medical degree from the University of Tennessee. She completed a residency in Psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine. She also completed her fellowship at Emory in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where she was co-chief resident. Before joining Vanderbilt, Sonali worked in Psychiatric Emergency Services at Grady Health Systems in Atlanta.
Instructor of Clinical Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, M.D., is an instructor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. He completed fellowships child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois. He completed his residency in general psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Veenstra-VanderWeele received his medical degreed from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine and his undergraduate degree from Harvard University. His research interests include molecular genetics and molecular biology of Autism and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. He hopes to study autism susceptibility genes in kids with autism and use mouse models to study the same genetic variants. Veenstra-VanderWeele’s areas of clinical expertise are in child and adolescent psychiatry, particularly autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder and anxiety disorders. Recent awards include the Lilly Resident Research Award from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Presidential Scholar Award.
