Professional Bio
Amanda Mixon, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health within the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is co-director of the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research and a member of the Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center at the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.
Dr. Mixon’s research is focused on care transitions, the effect of social determinants on readmission rates, medication reconciliation across care settings, and deprescribing in patients with polypharmacy. Her research is funded by VA Health Services Research & Development, PCORI, and NIH and has led to notable invitations including serving as an expert for the WHO’s Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medications without Harm. She leads the Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core for the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network, the only NIH-funded network of its kind in the U.S.
Education
MS - Microbiology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
MD - Texas Tech University, 2004
Residency - Internal Medicine - University of Alabama, 2007
MPH - Outcomes Research - University of Alabama, 2009
Fellowship - Birmingham VA Medical Center, 2010
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307