Katie completed her Doctor of Medicine, May 2015, from Baylor College of Medicine. Katie is a Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a Master's student funded by the NLM Training Grant.

John completed his Bachelor of Science, May 2016, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. John is in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He is pursuing a PhD funded by MSTP.

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Megan Salwei, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology within the Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety (CRISS). Dr. Salwei received her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she completed the National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, working with Matthew Weinger. 

Using human factors engineering methods and principles, her research program focuses on the design and integration of information-rich technologies to support care processes and improve patient safety. She is interested in the design of HealthIT to support teamwork in healthcare, not just between clinicians, but between the entire healthcare team - clinicians, patients, and their family caregivers. She received a K01 award from AHRQ to design a team-based collaborative technology to improve personalized treatment decision making for breast cancer patients. 

Megan received the Vanderbilt K12 Learning Health Systems award. Her K12 title is “COMputerized PAtient-centered Collaborative Technology (COMPACT) to support breast cancer shared decision making”. Info on her research and project can be found here: https://www.vumc.org/implementation/2018-lhs-scholars

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KJ completed his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, June 2019, from the University of California (Davis). KJ is a PhD student funded by the NLM Training Grant.

Candace completed her Doctor of Pharmacy, May 2015, from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. Candace is a Master’s student funded by the VA Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Robert "Alex" Becker, MS is a PhD candidate in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University, advised by Colin Walsh, MD; Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH; and Tom Reese, PharmD, PhD. His research focuses on improving the detection of preventable adverse events in anticoagulation therapy and exploring patient and provider perspectives on a shared decision-making tool designed to manage these risks.

Alex earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering with a certificate in Computational Science from the University of Cincinnati in April 2020. As an undergraduate, he gained diverse, hands-on experience through research and industry roles at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Zimmer Biomet, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. He earned an MS in Biomedical Informatics from Vanderbilt in 2023.

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Drew Wilimitis (he/him) received his Bachelor of Science in computational and applied math from the University of Chicago (June 2018). Drew was a Statistical Analyst working with Colin Walsh. He is a PhD student funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM). 

Dr. Martin Were is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He completed a B.A. in Biochemistry at Harvard University, went on to attend Harvard Medical School, and completed internal medicine residency training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School. He undertook an NLM-sponsored Medical Informatics fellowship at Regenstrief Institute Inc., Indiana University and a Masters of Clinical Research between 2006-2008.

Dr. Were’s work is in global health informatics. He has developed, implemented and evaluated a range of digital health solutions for the global settings including mobile health applications for providers and patients, electronic health record systems, unique patient identification approaches, and computerized clinical decision support systems, among others. He currently has over 55 peer-reviewed publications and has received over 10 million USD in grant funding. Over the last decade, he has been primary mentor to over 30 post-graduate health informatics and internal medicine trainees. He is also a practicing clinician in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Were has served as the Chief Medical Information Officer for the Indiana University-Kenya program (AMPATH), was co-chair of the mHealth Alliance Evidence Working Group, and has been on the Board of Scientific Counselors at Lister Hill Center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), and on the World Health Organization’s mHealth Technical Advisory Group. He is the Founder and Project Lead of the mUzima mobile Health initiative, an mHealth solution deployed nationally in Kenya and currently also used in several additional countries. Dr. Were currently serves as the Education Working Group Chair for the Pan-African Health Informatics Association (HELINA).

Research Interests: Global health informatics, computerized decision support, mHealth, and capacity building in Health Informatics. Current research involves the breath of application and implementation of health information technologies in resource-limited settings.

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