Lindsay Mayberry, PhD, MS, is a social and behavioral scientist and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Internal Medicine Public Health. She is also Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Mayberry was trained as a couples and family counselor through a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, followed by a doctorate in community psychology from Vanderbilt University. She came to VUMC as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Public Health before joining the faculty in 2014.
Dr. Mayberry studies health behavior change and health disparities, with particular emphasis on use of technology and the role of family and friend involvement in adults’ chronic disease self-management and well-being. She leads research teams in the development, evaluation and implementation of mobile phone delivered interventions to support self-management in diverse populations. She brings expertise in behavioral clinical trials, particularly in diabetes, and her work applies methods such as user-centered design, mixed methods, and advanced mediation and moderation analyses.
Dr. Mayberry serves as co-director of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Behavior and Health Education. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Dr. Mayberry’s research focuses on families’ experiences with the health and mental health care systems, and interactions between family members and health care providers in the context of chronic illness. Her current work focuses on the role of family member support in diabetes self-management behaviors among adults to inform the development of family-based interventions.