Dr. Malow is Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics in the Vanderbilt Sleep Division, holds the Burry Endowed Chair in Cognitive Childhood Development, and serves as director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Clinical Translational Core. Dr. Malow is board certified in neurology and Sleep Medicine. She previously served as Vice-Chair for Research and also Academic Affairs within Neurology, and Vice Chair of the governor-appointed Tennessee Autism Council. She also served as PI for the Vanderbilt site of the NeuroNEXT Network (NINDS Network of Excellence in Neuroscience Clinical Trials) and principal investigator for Vanderbilt’s Autism Treatment Network, one of several regional autism centers across North America developing standards of medical care for children with autism.

Prior to joining the faculty at Vanderbilt, Malow was a tenured associate professor of Neurology at the University of Michigan and director of the Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program and the General Clinical Research Center Sleep Program. She received her B.S. degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL in 1984 and her M.D. from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. She then did her internship in Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY from 1987-88. Her residency in the Harvard-Longwood Neurological Training Program in Boston, MA from 1988-91 was followed by a fellowship in epilepsy, EEG, and sleep at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1991-94.

Susan Brasher, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAAN, is an Assistant Professor, tenure track, and has an extensive pediatric background in both the inpatient setting as a Registered Nurse in a pediatric dedicated hospital and in the outpatient setting as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP). She has several years of experience teaching Pediatric Nursing to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Florida with an emphasis on pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically autism spectrum disorder. She has served as a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I) of numerous funded grants focusing on Autism Spectrum Disorder. She has several years of experience as PI, Co-I, and project coordinator of multiple funded patient-centered outcomes research institute (PCORI) awards working with community members and research teams to address health disparities of children and young adults on the autism spectrum. She has served as a PCORI ambassador since 2018 to expand knowledge and participation in patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) across the country. Learn more about Dr. Brasher.