Vanessa Elliot, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Family and Community Medicine

(615) 327-5854 or (615) 327-6438
Fax (Fax)
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Boulevard
3rd Floor Old Hospital
Room 3027
Nashville, TN  37208

velliot@mmc.edu

CV or Bio (PDF)

Behavioral Medicine, Obesity, Chronic Disease Management, and Child Development.

Klesges RC, Elliott VE, Robinson LA. Chronic dieting and the belief that smoking controls body weight in a biracial population-based adolescent sample. Tobacco Control, (6) 89-94; 1997.

Tyc V, Hudson M, Hinds P, Elliott V, Kibbey M. Tobacco use among pediatric cancer patients: Recommendations for developing smoking interventions. J Clin Onco (15) 2194-3304; 1997.

Okwumabua TM, Okwumabua JO, Elliott VE. “Let the Circle be Unbroken - Rites of Passage”: A model approach to prevent teenage pregnancy. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SEICUS) Reports. (12-7); 1998.

Elliott V, Morgan S, Day S, Mollerup L, Wang W. Parental health beliefs and compliance with prophylactic penicillin administration in children with sickle cell disease. J Ped Hem Onc (23) 112-116, 2001.

Steen RG, Hu J, Elliott VE, Miles MA, Jones S, Wang WC. Kindergarten readiness skills in children with sickle cell disease: Evidence of early neurocognitive damage? Journal of Child Neurology (17) 111-116; 2002.

Steele RG, Elliott VE & Phipps S. Race and health status as determinants of anger expression and adaptive style in children. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (22) 40-58, 2003.

Godambe S, Elliott V, Matheny D, Pershad J. Comparison of Propofol/Fentanyl versus Ketamine/Midazolam for brief orthopedic procedural sedation in a pediatric emergency department. Pediatrics (112) 116-123, 2003.