Austin Griffin, MD

Dr. Austin Griffin is a third-year cardiology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He grew up in Ohio and completed both his Internal Medicine residency and chief year at the Cleveland Clinic before moving to Nashville for cardiology fellowship training. His path in medicine has been shaped by a deep commitment to patient care, curiosity about systems-level improvement, and the desire to make health care more effective and humane. Before medical school, his work in global health policy and pharmaceutical operations shaped his drive to improve health care organization and delivery. During residency, he partnered with the informatics department and led efforts to streamline cardiology discharge workflows. These experiences helped him discover that informatics was a powerful bridge between clinical insight and health care systems improvement at scale.

Looking forward, Dr. Griffin is excited to collaborate with colleagues who are passionate about using data science and AI to solve clinical problems. In particular, he is eager to learn more about natural language processing, predictive analytics and multimodal data integration to ethically improve documentation, consult triage and arrhythmia risk prediction in patients with heritable cardiomyopathies. He is an affable team player who's thrilled to join this program and hopes his unique perspective will add great variety to the group's discourse. (Joined Fall 2025)