Jon W. Draud, MS, MD
Heritage Medical Associates
Nashville, Tennessee
Jon W. Draud, MS, MD is currently in the private practice of psychopharmacology and adult psychiatry at
Heritage Medical Associates, PC. He is also Medical Director of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Services
at Baptist Hospital, and he is on the Clinical Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University
in Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Draud received his MS in Pharmacology and his MD at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He
received postgraduate medical education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he completed a
residency in Psychiatry. A Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Draud is a
member of the American Psychiatric Association, American Medical Association, and the American
Academy of Psychiatry and Law and American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is active in teaching medical
students and residents, and he has delivered over 1,500 professional lectures to medical personnel. Dr.
Draud serves on numerous advisory boards, is an active, national-level speaker for several companies,
and is involved in neurobiological initiatives related to psychiatric illness.
Dr. Draud has been involved in design and implementation of several neurobiology projects, including the
disease states of depression, bipolar disorder, insomnia and pain with an emphasis on fibromyalgia and
neuropathic pain. Most recently, he was appointed by the MJ consulting group to its Neuroscience Advisory
Council and is one of four founding members of the Integrative Neurobiology Educational Institute which is
a nationally based "think tank" aimed at raising public awareness about the neurobiological underpinnings
common among many psychiatric disease states.