Stephen Entman, M.D.
Thomas Graham Jr., M.D.
Peter Loosen, M.D., Ph.D.
James Nash, M.D.
During Commencement, Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members who are retiring this year were bestowed with the title of emeritus faculty, honoring their years of service to the University.
Stephen S. Entman, M.D., professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, emeritus
Stephen S. Entman received his Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Harvard College, and M.D. from Duke University. Following military service and three years of private practice, Entman joined the faculty of the University of South Carolina. In 1980, he was recruited to Vanderbilt. He served as chair of the department from 1995 to 2005. He was the principal investigator for an NIH grant to investigate pre-eclamptic pregnancy and for a March of Dimes grant for a demonstration project to prevent preterm birth. Entman chaired the Medical Center Medical Board for five consecutive terms from 1989 to 1994 and was chair of the Maternal Mortality Collaborative of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for 15 years, during which time he was a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control. He was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Duke University in 1996.
Thomas P. Graham Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics, emeritus
Thomas P. Graham Jr. received both his undergraduate and his medical degrees from Duke University, in 1959 and 1963, respectively. Following a pediatric residency at Boston Children's Hospital, a pediatric cardiology fellowship at Duke University and postdoctoral experimental training in cardiovascular physiology at the NIH, Graham joined the Vanderbilt faculty as the director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology in 1971. He was honored with the Ann and Monroe Carell Family Chair in 1975. Graham has also been honored as the Alexander Nadas lecturer at the American Heart Association (AHA) and with the Gifted Teacher Award of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). He has served as chair of the Pediatric Cardiology Sub-board of the American Board of Pediatrics, chair of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young of the AHA, chair of the Congenital Heart Disease Committee of the ACC and president of the International Society of Congenital Heart Disease.
Peter T. Loosen, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Psychiatry, emeritus
Peter Loosen, a native of Germany, trained as a medical student at the Universities of Tübingen and Munich. He completed his psychiatry residency and a Ph.D. thesis in neurochemistry at the University of Munich in 1974. He moved to the United States in 1975 to work as a research fellow at the University of North Carolina and subsequently completed a second psychiatry residency program at UNC from 1976 to 1979. Loosen arrived at Vanderbilt in May 1986 as a professor of Psychiatry, chief of the Division of Psychoneuroendocrinology, and chief of psychiatry at the Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center. His primary research activities focused on the relationships between hormones and behavior. His investigation of psychiatric phenomenology in patients with acute Cushing's disease confirmed that hypercortisolism produces depression and anxiety. Loosen published 150 articles and book chapters and is the co-editor of two books, Handbook of Clinical Psychoneuroendocrinology and Current Psychiatric Diagnosis and Treatment.
James Loren Nash, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry, emeritus
After completing his degrees and residency at Duke University, James Nash served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Army Commendation Medal. Following a stint as a faculty member at Duke, Nash joined the faculty of the Vanderbilt University Department of Psychiatry in 1980. He is a four-time winner of the Psychiatry Residency Training Program Excellence in Teaching Award and a recipient of the American Psychiatric Association Irma Bland Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching Residents. He served for eight years as vice chair for graduate medical education and director of residency training, and was the medical director of the Vanderbilt Community Mental Health Center (Adult Section) for 14 years. Nash is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, past president of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association, past president and sustaining fellow of the Southern Psychiatric Association, a fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts, the first president of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society and a founding member of the Nashville Psychoanalytic Study Group.