Professional Bio
G. Waldon Garriss, III, MD, MS, MBA, MHA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Following medical school at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, he completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Vanderbilt University, followed by a general internal medicine fellowship at the University of Virginia, where he also earned his Master of Science in Health Evaluation Sciences/Epidemiology. Dr. Garriss also has a Master of Science in physiology and biophysics from the University of Kentucky, and a combined Master of Business Administration/Master of Health Administration from Georgia State University. Dr. Garriss began his career as a medical educator at Vanderbilt in 1999, and was named one of Vanderbilt's seven original Master Clinical Teachers in 2022. He formerly served as Program Director in the Vanderbilt Medicine-Pediatrics residency program and as Associate Program Director in the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Garriss also served for eight years as the Associate Chair for Ambulatory Education in the Department of Medicine. In 2011, he relocated to Marietta, Ga., where he helped start an internal medicine training program in the hospital where he was born. He returned to Vanderbilt in 2023 to join the Executive Wellness and Concierge Medicine group within the Department of Medicine’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Garriss is an active member of test material development committees at the NBME/USMLE, and has served in that capacity since 2021. Dr. Garriss is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a Master of the American College of Physicians.
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Education
MS - Physiology and Biophysics - University of Kentucky, 1985
MD - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993
Residency - Internal Medicine/Pediatrics - Vanderbilt University, 1997
Fellowship - , Division of General Internal Medicine - University of Virginia, 1999
MS - Health Evaluation Sciences - University of Virginia, 1999
MHA - PMBA/MHA Healthcare and Business Administration - Georgia State University, 2014
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307