Fall 2022-Spring 2024

I am an ophthalmologist practicing at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute where I see and surgically treat patients with glaucoma. In the ophthalmology department, I am also the glaucoma fellowship program director and involved with resident education and interviewing. With an interest in technology, I have been part of the department's Epic physician build team to help modify and optimize the EHR for our ophthalmologists and optometrists. I also have been involved in department projects, both research and operations, to assist in extracting information from the EHR or in interpreting the data with statistics.

In the MS‐ACI program, I am hoping to learn about more than just informatics' current applications in ophthalmology. I am interested in learning the potential of informatics to leverage the years of clinical data and imaging studies obtained on our department's patients to speed diagnosis and assist making treatment decisions. Along the way, I hope to establish connections with others in non‐ophthalmology roles to get a different perspective and to share ideas and techniques.

Fall 2022-Spring 2024

Adam is native of Middle Tennessee and has been a part of the Vanderbilt community since 1997. He completed his undergraduate studies in electrical and biomedical engineering and immediately started working in healthcare informatics at VUMC. Professionally, he started working as an analyst/developer at VUMC in the anesthesia and perioperative space. Currently, he works as a director in HealthIT responsible for technical ownership of clinical applications in the perioperative and procedural space across our health system.

In the MS‐ACI program, he hopes to gain greater exposure and knowledge of clinical informatics outside of the periop arena and to build relationships within the program that can foster innovation and concepts to better the field of healthcare informatics.

Formerly a MS in Applied Clinical Informatics student (Fall 2022-Spring 2024) and fellow of the DBMI Clinical Informatics Program. Current Medical Director for AI at HOPPR, attending radiologist at Imagen.

Originally from Chicago, Dr. Julie Bauml has worked as a radiologist in private practice as well as in academics. She graduated medical school from UI Chicago in 2010 and did her radiology residency there as well, and completed an MRI fellowship at UW Madison. She has worked as an attending physician at Mercy Hospital in Chicago, an assistant professor in radiology at UI Chicago Hospital, and private practice in the Chicago suburbs.

Dr. Bauml started her 2‐year clinical informatics fellowship in July 2022 and completed it in July of 2024 and as part of it, completed a masters in the MS‐ ACI program as well. Her interests are in the world of imaging informatics including AI/ML solutions (both interpretive and non‐interpretive) and leveraging extended reality for diagnostic imaging.

Since matriculating from Vanderbilt, Dr. Bauml has stayed on as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer for DBMI.  She has been able to engage with her AI interests at her role of Medical Director for AI at HOPPR, an AI startup working on medical imaging foundational model development.  Dr. Bauml also consults for multiple other companies in the medical imaging technology space, including Luxsonic (working on VR headsets for portable radiology reading capabilities).  She stays clinically active by reading patient exams remotely for Imagen, which is also an AI company that uses its clinical data to develop AI algorithms.