Mackenzie Lowery, MD

Mackenzie
Lowery
MD
3rd Year Fellow
Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics

Mackenzie has been a pediatrician in Murray, KY for the last six years. She greatly enjoyed her job as a general pediatrician, but always felt extra passionate about her patients with more complex health needs. She is very excited to pursue a specialty in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics!

Mackenzie and her husband have two children. They spend their free time watching their children play multiple sports and hanging out on the couch with their English Bulldog, Cosmo.

Delivery Address
Doctors' Office Tower
2200 Children's Way
Room / Suite
11101
Nashville
Tennessee
37232-9003

Undergraduate: University of Evansville
Medical School: University of Illinois College of Medicine, Rockford
Residency: University of Louisville, Norton Children's Hospital

Edward G.A. Iglesia, MD, MPH

Edward
G.A.
Iglesia
MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Allergy/Immunology/Pulmonary Medicine
Clinic Phone
(615) 936-5697
Delivery Address
Doctors' Office Tower
2200 Children's Way
Room / Suite
11215
Nashville
Tennessee
37232-9500
Website for Patients
https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/doctors/iglesia-edward

Dr. Iglesia is a quadruple board certified allergist-immunologist (additional certifications in internal medicine, pediatrics, and preventive medicine) with experience in clinical and health services research. He is a co-investigator in Vanderbilt’s site of the NIH-sponsored multi-center Consortium of Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) and collaborates with other providers and investigators to improve health care delivery to individuals with, and at risk of, allergic disease (including primary prevention of food allergy). He also is involved in trainee education with interests in quality improvement, effective health communication, shared-decision making, and diagnostic reasoning.

edward.iglesia@vumc.org

Food allergy, food allergy prevention, adverse food reactions (including orofacial granulomatosis), asthma, atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis, eosinophilic esophagitis, chronic spontaneous urticaria

Specialty
Allergy & Immunology, Pediatric
Allergy & Immunology, Adult
M.D.
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ
M.P.H.
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC
Residencies
Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
General Preventive Medicine and Public Health - University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC
Fellowship
Allergy & Immunology - University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC

Anna K. Richmond, MSN, DNP, FNP-C, CPNP-PC

Anna
K.
Richmond
MSN, DNP, FNP-C, CPNP-PC
Nurse Practitioner
Rheumatology
https://nursing.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/anna-richmond
Clinic Phone
(615) 322-4397
Delivery Address
2141 Blakemore Ave
Room / Suite
150
Nashville
Tennessee
37212
Website for Patients
https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/doctors/richmond-anna
anna.k.richmond@vumc.org

Pediatric to adult transitions in care

B.S.N.
Southeastern Louisiana University
M.S.N.
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
D.N.P.
University of Tennessee-Health Science Center College of Medicine

Jasmine Ragoowansi, MD

Jasmine
Ragoowansi
MD
3rd Year Fellow
Pediatric Cardiology

Clinical Interests: Heart Failure/Transplant, General Cardiology
Current Research Endeavors: TBD
Personal Interests: Trying new food and restaurants, baking sourdough, gardening

Delivery Address
Doctors' Office Tower
2200 Children's Way
Room / Suite
5230
Nashville
Tennessee
37232-9119

Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Residency: Pediatrics - University of Virginia

Fred Lam, MD

Fred
Lam
MD
3rd Year Fellow
Pediatric Cardiology
Delivery Address
Doctors' Office Tower
2200 Children's Way
Room / Suite
5230
Nashville
Tennessee
37232-9119

Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Medical School: East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Residency: Johns Hopkins Hospital

Catherine M. Deffendall, MD

Catherine
M.
Deffendall
MD
Clinical Fellow
Rheumatology and Immunology, Department of Medicine

Catherine is a Lexington, KY native and completed her undergraduate degree at Centre College prior to attending medical school at the University of Kentucky. She then completed an Internal Medicine-Pediatric residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center followed by a year as the first Medicine-Pediatrics chief resident in 2021-2022. Following her chief year, Dr. Deffendall began her combined adult and pediatric Rheumatology fellowship.

During fellowship, she gained an appreciation for quality improvement research and began a Masters in Public Health in 2024 with the goal of improving care for Rheumatology patients. Her clinical interests are in transitions of care, reproductive health in rheumatic diseases, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Delivery Address
2141 Blakemore Ave
Room / Suite
150
Nashville
Tennessee
37212

Residency: Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2021
Medical School: University of Kentucky
Undergraduate: Centre College

Brittany Nelson, APRN, DNP, PNP-PC, PMHNP

Brittany
Nelson
APRN, DNP, PNP-PC, PMHNP
Nurse Practitioner
Rheumatology
Clinic Phone
(615) 322-4397
Delivery Address
2141 Blakemore Ave
Room / Suite
150
Nashville
Tennessee
37212
Website for Patients
https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/doctors/nelson-brittany
brittany.h.nelson.1@vumc.org

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Musculoskeletal Pain, Mental Health

B.S.N.
Vanderbilt University
M.S.N.
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
D.N.P.
George Washington University

Andrew H. Smith, MD, MSCI, MMHC

Andrew
H.
Smith
MD, MSCI, MMHC
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Director
Pediatric Heart Institute Clinical Informatics and Analytics Core
Chair
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
Delivery Address
Doctors' Office Tower
2200 Children's Way
Room / Suite
5121
Nashville
Tennessee
37232

Dr. Smith is a pediatric cardiac intensivist whose academic efforts focus upon understanding and improving outcomes for children with structural and acquired heart disease. Specifically, his interests include the application of supervised machine learning approaches to better appreciate modifiable risk factors associated with cardiac surgical outcomes, applying social network analysis and natural language processing techniques to understand the behaviors of interdisciplinary communication networks in advance of clinical deterioration, and leveraging clinical registry experience to explore linkages between large administrative and clinical datasets to better understand the resource demands associated with high-quality care.

andrew.h.smith@vumc.org

Pediatric cardiac critical care, clinical informatics, mechanical circulatory support, early postoperative arrhythmias

MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (2001)
MSCI
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN (2007)
MMHC
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management, Nashville, TN (2012)
MS
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR (2024)
Residency
Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University Medical Center/Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN (2004)

Fellowships
Pediatric Cardiology - Vanderbilt University Medical Center/Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN (2007)
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Vanderbilt University Medical Center/Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN (2009)
Senior Clinical Fellowship, Cardiac Critical Care Medicine - Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA (2009)

Jennifer M. Stewart, PhD

Jennifer
M.
Stewart
PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Pediatric Psychology
Delivery Address
2141 Blakemore Ave
Room / Suite
150E
Nashville
Tennessee
37212
Website for Patients
https://www.childrenshospitalvanderbilt.org/doctors/stewart-jennifer
jennifer.stewart.1@vumc.org

Child & Adolescent Psychology, Behavioral Health in Primary Care

Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology - Vanderbilt University
Clinical Internship
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Postdoctoral Residency
University of Wisconsin - Madison

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