Andrew Michel

Biography

Andrew Michel, M.D. is Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Department of Integrated Medical Education at the Frist College of Medicine at Belmont University, where he currently serves as the curriculum committee chair.  Dr. Michel earned his M.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed the Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program; Dr. Michel is a board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Michel’s scholarship has focused on the interface of philosophy (virtue ethics), theology, contemplative spirituality, and clinical psychiatry.  Dr. Michel’s academic ventures are heavily informed by clinical experience in caring for persons who suffer with a range of mental health challenges, including trauma, addiction, and disruptions of mood and cognition.  Dr. Michel’s style of practice has a contemplative foundation, centered in being deeply present in solidarity with persons who suffer with psychiatric illness, with the aim of healing and flourishing in the context of vulnerability.  Dr. Michel formerly served as an Assistant Training Director of the Vanderbilt Psychiatry Residency Training Program and also formerly served as the Chief of Psychiatry of the Veteran’s Affairs Hospital System across middle Tennessee.  Dr. Michel was involved in crafting cases and facilitating case-based learning groups for Vanderbilt Medical School’s innovative case-based learning curriculum, known as Curriculum 2.0, in the Foundations of Medical Knowledge year.  Dr. Michel and coauthors Jeffrey P. Bishop and M. Therese Lysaught are the recipients of the 2021 Expanded Reason Award for their book Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue.