Amanda Salanitro Mixon, MD, MPH

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 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.