Nashville. Tenn.-based Centerstone, a nonprofit organization offering community-based behavioral healthcare, named Richard C. Shelton, MD, CEO of Centerstone Research Institute and CMO of Centerstone.
Here are three points:
1. Dr. Shelton previously worked at Nashville-based Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he served as the James G. Blakemore Research Professor and vice chair for clinical research in the psychiatry department.
2. He also served as the Charles Byron Ireland Professor, vice chair for research and head of the mood disorders research program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
3. He received numerous honors over the course of his career, including the Dorthea Dix Professional Service Award from the Tennessee Association of Mental Health Centers in 2007.