Jessica Buckner, DNP, PMC-NE, RN

Jessica
Deere
Clinical Informatics Analyst
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
jessica.a.deere.1@vumc.org

Jessica Buckner is a Nurse Informatics Data Analyst with 10 years of nursing experience in various clinical settings. She began her nursing career in 2012 working in Long Term Care/Skilled Nursing, and in 2016 transitioned to Operating Room nursing becoming a team leader. Since 2019, Jessica has worked as a Utilization Review nurse, initially for an insurance payor conducting chart reviews for medical necessity of inpatient hospital admission. She became a travel Utilization Review nurse in 2021 and assisted various hospitals with chart review, payor communication, workflow creation, and EHR implementation. She obtained her PN from Tennessee College of Applied Technology, her BSN from University of Tennessee at Martin, and is currently pursuing her MSN degree in Nursing Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. She received her Doctor of Nursing Practice and Post-Masters Certificate in Nursing Education in December 2024.

Michael F. McLemore, BSN, RN

Michael
McLemore
Clinical Informatics Analyst
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
michael.f.mclemore@vumc.org

Michael is a clinical informatics nurse with over ten years of informatics experience in roles ranging from analyst to product manager.  His prior focus has been in translational informatics where he has created clinical decision support tools for clinicians at VUMC. Currently, he is tasked with improving usability of VA data for research and supporting DBMI research projects.

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Susannah Rose, MSSW, PhD

Susannah
Rose
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Core Faculty
Center for Bioethics & Society
Associate Professor
Department of Health Policy
Executive Director
ADVANCE Center
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
susannah.rose@vumc.org

Susannah Rose, MSSW, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and is Core Faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU). She is also Executive Director of the AI Discovery and Vigilance to Accelerate Innovation and Clinical Excellence (ADVANCE) Center. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Health Policy and is a Faculty Scholar in the Center for Health Services Research. Prior to VUMC/VU, she was a Full Professional Staff (faculty) member at Cleveland Clinic, and she served in many leadership roles, including as the Director of Research for the Center of Bioethics, the Director of Research for Safety, Quality and Patient Experience, and the Associate Chief Experience Officer. She was also an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College of Medicine and in the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Rose is also an Instructor at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she teaches public health ethics, including artificial intelligence ethics.

Dr. Rose earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University's Health Policy Program (with a concentration in Ethics) in 2010. Dr. Rose was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pre-doctoral research fellow; a Harvard Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow; a Safra post-doctoral lab fellow; and she was also a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through the Program in Cancer Research Outcomes Training (PCORT). Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned an MS in Bioethics from Union College/Albany Medical Center in 2006, and a MS in Social Work from Columbia University in 1998. Dr. Rose was a clinical social worker and researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

During her career, Dr. Rose has received multiple mentorship and teaching awards. She has published two books focused on helping patients and family members cope with cancer, and she has published and presented in academic venues on topics related to technology diffusion in healthcare, conflicts of interest in medicine, health policy ethics, and bioethics. Her publications have appeared in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, such as: JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM), The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), PLOS One, American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), and The Hastings Center Report, and her book chapters on health policy ethics and end of life care have been published by the Oxford University Press. She frequently presents at peer-reviewed national and international conferences, and is invited to speak at conferences all over the world, including the United States, Sweden, Germany and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Her current research focuses upon the ethics and impact of medical technology innovations, including artificial intelligence in healthcare, improving patient experience, and developing data-driven approaches to improve patient care. Dr. Rose’s research has been generously funded by multiple funding sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, NIH’s Clinical & Translational Science Collaborative (CTSC) at Cleveland Clinic & Case Western Reserve University, and The Greenwall Foundation, in addition to internal Cleveland Clinic funding sources.

Julian Genkins, MD

Julian
Genkins
Assistant Professor
Division of General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
julian.genkins@vumc.org

Julian Genkins, MD, is a clinical Informatician and internist at VUMC. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt followed by and internal medicine residency at UCSF and clinical informatics Fellowship at Stanford. His professional interests lie at the intersection of clinical informatics, provider wellbeing, preventative care, and learning theory/health professions education. At VUMC he wears multiple hats, including: Clinical Director with Health IT for Healthy Planet (Population Health) and Clinical Decision Support teams, leader of the Health Informatics and AI thread of the Vanderbilt Medical School Foundations of Professional Responsibility (), and is a physician builder within the Department of Medicine. 

Sergio Mundo

Sergio
Mundo
PhD
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Biomedical Informatics
sergio.mundo@vumc.org