About

Dr. Finlayson is a professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences who has been a member of the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine since 2001. He was the Medical Director of the Vanderbilt Faculty and Physician Wellness program and the Vanderbilt Comprehensive Assessment Program for professionals and the founding training director for the Vanderbilt Addiction Medicine Fellowship training program.

Dr. Finlayson was a family doctor who became a psychiatrist specializing in addictions, with special interests in sexuality and physician health. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and educated in Canada.  He earned his medical degree at the University of Western in London, Ontario. He completed a psychiatric residency at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and trained in Addiction Medicine at The Homewood in Guelph, Ontario. Dr. Finlayson completed a Master of Health Care Management degree (2014) at Vanderbilt Owen School of Management.  

Dr. Finlayson is boarded in Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN ID: 101982) and in the Subspecialty Addiction Medicine program of the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM ABMS ID: 98750). He has been elected a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (2009), Distinguished Fellow of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (2009 Certification No. 000411), and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (2010).

He is married and has three children and three grandchildren.