Edward K. Shultz, M.D., M.S., is Associate Professor (Emeritus) of Biomedical Informatics and Associate Professor of Pathology in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He was also Director of Technology Integration at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In those capacities he defines an informatics technical architecture that will scale up to support our evolving enterprise, for directing technical support for the server and application development infrastructure and for enterprise level decision support databases. He provided a bridge between the basic research activities within the Department and the units that support operational systems in the hospital, clinics, and affiliated sites.

Dr. Shultz joined the faculty at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 1984, and began a long and productive career in the fledgling field of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Shultz has gained national recognition through his research, teaching, and service while at Dartmouth, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Pathology in 1990. He served as Director of the NIH/NLM-sponsored Dartmouth Medical School Training Program in Medical Informatics from 1989-1994, and Director of the Dartmouth Program in Medical Information Science from 1988-1996. He was elected to Fellowship in the American College of Medical Informatics in 1992. He was selected to serve on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association from 1994 until 2000. He chaired the national Department of Veteran Affairs Expert panel on Inter-application communication from 1992-1996, and served as a member of the Department of Veteran Affairs Integration and Technology Applications Requirements Group from 1991-1996. Dr. Shultz's research experiences in biomedical informatics have ranged from applications in clinical chemistry and mathematical modeling techniques to computer-based innovative approaches to medical education, and man-machine interfaces related to clinical systems. At Dartmouth, he created the first hypermedia based model of a clinical workstation, the Interactive Medical Record, which has had widespread influence on the field. He has been interested in the area of telemedicine, and created a home monitor for cystic fibrosis patients at Minnesota, and at Dartmouth showed that computer linkage of diabetic patients in their home environments to their providers could demonstrate healthcare benefits. He was Principal Investigator or co-PI on 7 grants totaling $2.1 million. At Dartmouth, Dr. Shultz was the Director of the nationally recognized Program in Medical Information Science for seven years and the Director of a National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Program for five years. Dr. Shultz participated in teaching postdoctoral trainees (residents and fellows) in Pathology, as well as postdoctoral trainees in biomedical informatics (through his directorship of the NIH-sponsored training program). Dr. Shultz established the first computer network at Dartmouth Medical School, gradually expanding the linkage to include a pioneering microwave link to the affiliated Department of Veteran Affairs hospital. Dr. Shultz served on a number of local and national committees during his time at Dartmouth. He has served as an ad-hoc reviewer on a number of NIH Study Sections related to computer applications in medical care from 1988-present. He chaired the Automated Data Processing Committee at Dartmouth's Veterans Administration Hospital from 1985-88, and served as a member of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee from 1993-96. He chaired the American Medical Informatics Association's Professional Specialty Program group during 1992-93. Within the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, he has served as a member of the Council on Informatics (1991-96), a member of the Educational Materials Advisory Committee (1995-present), and a member of the Future Directions Committee (1995-present). He chaired the Education and Hypermedia section of the national meeting in medical informatics (SCAMC) in 1989, and chaired the Education section of the American College of Medical Informatics meeting in 1991. He chaired the national Technical Committee of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research on "The Feasibility of Using Existing Automated Ambulatory Health Care Record Systems for Outcomes Research".

Dr. Shultz obtained his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed an Internship in Clinical Pathology at Barnes Hospital, Washington University St. Louis, in 1979-80, and Residency training in Clinical Pathology at the University of Minnesota from 1980-84. During the latter training, he was supported by an NIH Post-doctoral fellowship, in the Division of Health Computer Sciences in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Minnesota, and obtained a Masters degree in Biophysics (Mathematical Modeling).

S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD, MPH, FACMI is the Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, the Director of Patient Engagement and a Professor of Biomedical Informatics with secondary appointments in Medicine, Pediatrics and the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. He is a board certified internist and pediatrician and is a nationally recognized investigator in the field of health information technology evaluation. His research has focused on studying how healthcare providers interact with health information technologies when documenting patient care and when making clinical decisions.

Dr. Rosenbloom has successfully competed for extramural funding from the National Library of Medicine and from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the role of principal investigator. Funded research grants have included awards under career development (K) award, R01 and R18 funding mechanisms. His work has resulted in lead and co-authorship on numerous peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Pediatrics, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Academic Medicine, among others. In addition, Dr. Rosenbloom has authored and coauthored book chapters, posters, white papers and invited papers. He has been a committed member of the principal professional organization in his field, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). He has served AMIA in leadership roles, including participating in: a Scientific Program Committee, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) Editorial Board, a national Health Policy Meeting Committee, the JAMIA Editor in Chief search committee, and a Working Group on Unintended Consequences. As a result of his research success and service to AMIA, Dr. Rosenbloom was the recipient of the AMIA New Investigator Award in 2009, and was elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) in 2011. In addition, Dr. Rosenbloom has participated in study sections for the National Library of Medicine and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare. He has also participated as a member of the HL7 Pediatric Data Special Interest Group and the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Clinical Information Technology. He is an active reviewer several journals covering general medicine, pediatrics and biomedical informatics.

Currently, Dr. Rosenbloom spends most of his energy guiding development of Vanderbilt's patient portal as its chair, and evaluating the impact of clinical informatics systems on medical practice and outcomes. His areas of interest include patient engagement, decision support, pediatric growth modeling, documentation systems and interface terminologies. He is currently engaged in active federally-funded programs of research evaluating clinical documentation systems and personal health record systems.

Dr. Rosenbloom earned his M.D., completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, and earned an M.P.H. all at Vanderbilt University. 

Josh Peterson, MD, MPH serves as a Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, the Director of the Center for Precision Medicine, and the Vice-President for Personalized Medicine.

Dr. Peterson is an internationally recognized researcher and educator in Biomedical Informatics and maintains an Internal Medicine practice at VUMC.  He has authored more than 120 peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, reviews, and book chapters.  Dr. Peterson's research interests are in precision medicine with a focus on clinical decision support to improve drug safety and efficacy, and the translation of genomic technologies to routine clinical care. He has led the design and implementation of multiple clinical decision support systems oriented towards geriatric patients, the critically ill, patients with acute and chronic kidney disease, and most recently for patients tested within a large pharmacogenomics implementation - PREDICT.  He currently serves as a principal investigator for an NIH funded project to simulate the clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of performing sequencing across large populations over their lifetime. He is also active within a variety of NIH sponsored research consortia including, eMERGE where he leads the Coordinating Center, and IGNITE where he is principal investigator of the I3P clinical sites recruiting for Genomic Medicine randomized clinical trials. Dr. Peterson was the founding Program Director for the Masters of Applied Clinical Informatics (MSACI) program, which trains physicians and other health professionals in the field of Clinical Informatics. He currently directs the Vanderbilt Genomic Medicine training program.

Dr. Peterson received his medical degree through the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1997 and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center, a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a Masters of Public Health degree at the Harvard School of Public Health.  

Randolph A. Miller, M.D., is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor (Emeritus) of Biomedical Informatics and the University Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Nursing. His current interests are in development and evaluation of medical decision support systems and their corresponding knowledge bases; clinical terminology systems; ethical and legal implications of developing and using clinical information systems; and, institutional-level informatics initiatives.

After moving to Vanderbilt, Dr. Miller served as Chair of the Division of  Biomedical Informatics from 1994-2004 to and as the founding Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) from 2001-2004. The initial DBMI mission was to develop and evaluate leading-edge biomedical software applications to improve the quality of care, promote research, and enhance patient safety. With faculty and staff colleagues, DBMI built Vanderbilt’s CPOE and EMR systems “from scratch”.  Dr. Miller also helped Drs. Joshua Denny and Anderson Spickard III  to create a new educational support system for Vanderbilt medical students, known as KnowledgeMap. Dr. Miller was the founding Principal Investigator on Vanderbilt’s NIH-sponsored Training Program in Biomedical Informatics.

Dr. Miller served as President/Board Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (1994-95) and President of the American College of Medical Informatics (2003-04). He received a 1997 FDA Commissioner's Special Citation for his work on clinical software evaluation.  He served as Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal in Biomedical Informatics, JAMIA, from July 2002 through December, 2010.  Dr. Miller served on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000-2003.  He served on the National Library of Medicine Biomedical Library Review Study Section (two terms) and the AHCPR Health Care Technology Study Section.   In 2004, Vanderbilt made him a University Professor, and provided an endowed chair.  He received Vanderbilt’s 2004 William J. Darby Award for Translational Research. In October 2006, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, of the National Academy of Sciences.  He received the American Medical Informatics Association’s Lindberg Award for Innovation in Biomedical Informatics in 2007, and the Phillip S. Hench Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2008.  Over his career, Dr. Miller has been Principal Investigator on NLM/NIH grants and contracts totaling over $30 million. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications.

Prior Work: Randolph A. Miller majored in Physics at Princeton, then enrolled in medical school at the University of Pittsburgh in 1971. In 1973, he joined the pioneering INTERNIST-I computer-assisted medical diagnosis project, working under Dr. Jack D. Myers, a renowned former Chairman of Medicine at theUniversity of Pittsburgh, and Harry E. Pople, Jr., a brilliant computer scientist. After taking a year-long sabbatical from medical school to do informatics research, he graduated in 1976, completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the Department of Medicine faculty in 1979. As an academic general internist, he cared for patients for a quarter-century. Dr. Miller founded the Section of Medical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1986.  His work on refining, improving, and evaluating medical diagnostic decision support systems gained international recognition.

He also authored a series of articles and book chapters on ethical and legal issues posed by using clinical information systems. In 1988, he received the University of Utah’s first Priscilla Mayden Award in Medical Informatics for his work on Quick Medical Reference (QMR), the successor to INTERNIST-I. Dr. Miller served as PI for the University of Pittsburgh's participation in the National Library of Medicine's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Project (1986-1994). He was founding PI on Pitt's NIH-sponsored Training Program in Medical Informatics. 

Michael E. Matheny, MD, MS, MPH, 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.

He has expertise in developing and adapting methods for post-marketing medical device surveillance, and has been involved in the development, evaluation, and validation of automated outcome surveillance statistical methods and computer applications. He is leading the OMOP extract, transform, and load team within VINCI for the national VHA data, and is a Co-Principal Investigator for the pScanner CDRN Phase 2. He also is currently independently funded for two VA HSR&D IIR's in automated surveillance and data visualization techniques for acute kidney injury following cardiac catheterization and patients with cirrhosis. His key focus areas include natural language processing, data mining and population health analytics as well as health services research in acute kidney injury, diabetes, and device safety in interventional cardiology.

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Bradley Malin, Ph.D. is the Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Computer Science, as well as Vice Chair for Research Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.  His research is funded through grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  His research is on the development of technologies to enable artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in the context of organizational, political, and health information architectures. He has made specific contributions in a number of areas, including distributed data processing methods for medical record linkage and predictive modeling, intelligent auditing technologies to protect electronic medical records from misuse in the context of primary care, and algorithms to formally anonymize patient information disseminated for secondary research purposes. His investigations on the empirical risks to health information re-identification have been cited by the Federal Trade Commission in the Federal Register and certain privacy enhancing technologies he developed have been featured in popular media outlets and blogs, including Nature News, Scientific American, and Wired magazine.

He co-directs the AI Discovery and Vigilance to Accelerate Innovation and Clinical Excellence (ADVANCE) Center. He is also the co-director of the Center for Genetic Privacy and Identity in Community Settings (GetPreCiSe) - an NIH Center of Excellence on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research (CEER), the Ethics Core of the NIH Bridge2AI program, and the Infrastructure Core of the NIH Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). In addition, he serves as the co-chair of the Committee on Access, Privacy, and Security (CAPS) of the All of Us Research Program of the U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative, an appointed member of the Technical Anonymisation Group of the European Medicines Agency, and an appointed member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI), the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  In addition, he was honored as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House.

Dr. Malin completed his education at Carnegie Mellon University, where he received a bachelor's in biological sciences, a master's in machine learning, a master's in public policy and management, and a doctorate in computer science (with a focus on databases and software systems).

Nancy M. Lorenzi, PhD, MA, MS is Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. She is also Vice President for Strategic Change Management at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The successful implementation of any information technology system rests with the effective management of the people and process aspects connected to the change as well as the technology. Research into why there are information technology failures points to communication, culture, underestimation of complexity, organizational and leadership issues as leading to more issues than the technology. Dr. Lorenzi and the People, Organization and Technology Research group at the Department of Biomedical Informatics focus of creating successful implementations.

Early in her career Dr. Lorenzi was the Director of the Medical Center Libraries at the University of Cincinnati and later appointed as Associate Senior Vice President of the Medical Center at the University of Cincinnati responsible for strategic planning, change management and future informatics directions. Dr. Lorenzi was elected President of the Medical Library Association. Her significant effort in that role was helping the organization focus on the future.  

Nancy has been active in the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). She was Chair of a Working Conference on the Organizational Impact of Informatics in 1993 in Cincinnati and Co-Chair of an IMIA Working Group conference with a similar focus in Helsinki, Finland in 1998. In 1993 she organized the Organizational Impact of Medical Informatics for IMIA.   She was an IMIA Vice-President for Working Groups and elected as President-elect of the IMIA in 2002 serving as President from 2004-2007 and past-President in 2008.

Dr. Lorenzi has been active with American Medical Informatics Association; (AMIA).  In 1994 she organized the American Medical Informatics Association working group on People and Organizational issues.  She was the Scientific Program Chair of the AMIA Fall Symposium in 1999 that had over 2,000 participants. She was the elected Treasurer for two consecutive term (2000-2004) s. She was elected to be the Chair of the AMIA Board of Directors in 2009 and served as Chair 2010-2011 and past chair in 2012.

Nancy has received a number of honors. She was awarded the 2004 Marcia C. Noyes Award, the highest professional distinction of the Medical Library Association to recognize “a career that has resulted in lasting, outstanding contributions to medical librarianship.” The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing inducted her as an as honorary member in November 2005. In 2012, Dr. Lorenzi was awarded the Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence for lifetime achievement and significant contributions to the discipline of medical informatics by the American College of Informatics. At her home organization, Vanderbilt University Medical Center she received the Five Pillar Leader Award that was created “to recognize exceptional leaders who consistently model a balanced approach to leadership across the five pillars and demonstrate Credo behaviors.” In 1994 she was elected as both a Fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics and a Fellow of the Medical Library Association.

Dr. Lorenzi has published significantly in peer-reviewed literature. She has authored or edited a number of books considered to be definitive in her field. She is internationally recognized as a top expert in the areas of managing technological change related to information technology, especially the organizational and people-process components that lead to success or failure.

Qi Liu, Ph.D., is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics, basic science educator track, and full-time faculty member in the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences. Dr. Liu is proficient in bioinformatics methodology development and next generation sequencing data analysis.   Her research interests include integrative system biology approaches to the biological basis of complex diseases, and transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation networks.

Dr. Liu received her doctorate in Bioinformatics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003. She then spent two years as a research assistant in Chinese Academic of Sciences and served as an Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for seven years. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2013.