Leadership

Michael E. Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA
Director, Center for Improving the Public’s Health through Informatics,
Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Medicine (General Internal Medicine & Public Health)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Associate Director, VA ORD VETWISE-LHS COIN
Co-Director, Advanced Fellowship in Medical Informatics
VA TVHS Veterans Affairs

Dr. Matheny is a practicing general internist and medical informatician at Vanderbilt University and TVHS Veteran’s Administration. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.D. from the University of Kentucky, completed Internal Medicine residency training at St. Vincent's, Indianapolis, IN, and was an NLM Biomedical Informatics Fellow at Decision Systems Group at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA during which time he completed a Master’s in public health at Harvard University as well as a master’s of science in biomedical informatics at MIT.

His research interests include: Predictive analytics, machine learning and data mining, medical device surveillance, population health analytics and natural language processing. Involved in a variety of diabetes and acute kidney injury health services research, as well as statistical and informatics tool development related to medical product surveillance.