About

Dr. Meador has served as the Director of Integrative Mental Health since its inception in 2008. Additionally, Dr. Meador is the Anne Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics and serves as the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University, where he is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in July of 2010 and previously served as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. Dr. Meador is a physician and board-certified psychiatrist with training in theology and public health. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville. He completed his residency in psychiatry and fellowship in aging and human development at Duke University. His theological education leading to the ThM was at Duke Divinity School and he received his MPH in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Dr. Meador’s scholarship builds on his clinical, research and teaching background in mental health, practical theology, and public health about which he lectures widely and has published numerous publications including the co-authored book, Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity. His academic work includes theological and ethical exploration of the intersections of religion and health and empirical research regarding socio-cultural determinants of illness, health, and human flourishing.