Jacob Franco, MD

Fall 2020-Spring 2022

I grew up in Chappaqua, New York, where not much happens. To pass the time I took a computer science class in high school and fell in love with it. My passion for programming brought me to Brown University where I was poised to be a software engineer. That is, until a fateful internship showed me the horrors of pure cubicle work day in and day out. I realized I wanted to work with people, so I completed a degree in Computational Biology. This brought me to Stony Brook School of Medicine.  At Stony Brook my initial passion came through again, as I made an iPhone app for a Urologist and also created a sorting program to assign my fellow students into their preferred rotations.

I completed Internal Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2019 and started work as a Hospitalist at Vanderbilt that year. I rediscovered my passion for programming and algorithms and took the role of Epic Clinician Champion for the Hospitalist Department. Multiple committees and several Grand Rounds presentations later I found that I would need a deeper understanding to make true change. I completed the basic and advanced builder courses at Epic and am now completing the MSACI program to further help my institution and department.