William Vaughn Mccall MD, MS

Dr. Vaughn McCall is Professor and Case Distinguished Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Health Behavior at Augusta University. Dr. McCall comes to AU from Wake Forest University School of Medicine after having served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine since 2003. He completed his medical degree and post-graduate psychiatric training at Duke University. He completed a Masters's degree in Epidemiology from Wake Forest University. He is board-certified in general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and sleep disorders medicine. His research interests include depression, electroconvulsive therapy, quality of life, and insomnia.

His research has been continuously funded by the National Institute of Mental Health since 1995, and he is the author of more than 300 publications, including more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is Editor of the Journal of ECT, Past President of the Association for Convulsive Therapy, and a prior Director of the Board of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. His awards have included The Thomas Ball Award, presented by the Chesapeake Bay Sleep Society for service in Sleep Medicine, and the Eugene Hargrove Award is given by the NC Psychiatric Association for achievement in psychiatric research and the Honored Speaker Award given by the International Association of ECT and Neurostimulation.