Primary Preceptors
Scott Nelson, PharmD, MS, FAMIA, ACHIP
Residency Program Director
Dr. Nelson is a nationally recognized pharmacist and informaticist whose work bridges clinical practice, education, and health IT innovation. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he leads efforts in medication safety informatics, focusing on medication reconciliation, e-prescribing, clinical decision support, and the integration of artificial intelligence into clinical workflows. As Program Director of the MS-ACI program, he mentors the next generation of clinical informaticians through a curriculum grounded in real-world application. In addition, he serves as Affiliate Faculty at several colleges of pharmacy and serves as the Residency Program Director for the PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics residency at Vanderbilt.
Dr. Nelson precepts the orientation and longitudinal research project rotations.
Dr. Wing Liu, PharmD
Dr. Liu completed a PGY2 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Pharmacy Informatics and a PGY1 in Pharmacy Practice at the VA Western New York Healthcare System. He earned his PharmD from the University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Liu iis the Director of the Pharmacy Portfolio. In addition to being a preceptor for multiple colleges of pharmacy, he is adjunct faculty within the Lipscomb University Masters of Healthcare Informatics program. His practice interests include clinical decision support, interoperability, data analytics, and leadership, advocacy, and policy for pharmacists in clinical informatics.
Dr. David Mulherin, PharmD, BCPS
Dr. Mulherin joined the Pharmacy Informatics Health IT team in 2014. Previously he received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2006, followed by a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in 2010. After graduation he completed a PGY1 at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis and further received a PGY2 Pharmacy Informatics residency certificate from the University of Michigan. He was an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy for 3 years prior to joining the Vanderbilt team. Dr. Mulherin has taken on numerous projects including expanded TPN ordering, CDS team lead, multiple BPA alerts and drug interaction features in our clinical systems.
Dr. Mulherin precepts the Advanced Clinical Decision Support rotation.
Dr. Joseph Huenecke, PharmD
Dr. Huenecke completed a PGY2 at Vanderbilt University in Pharmacy Informatics and a PGY1 in Pharmacy Practice at the University of Toledo. He earned his PharmD from Belmont University College of Pharmacy in Nashville, TN. Following completion of residency training, Dr. Huenecke accepted a position on the Pharmacy Informatics team in Health IT at VUMC. His current practice interests include data analytics, data visualization, system automation design and multi-team solution design.
Dr. Huenecke is a preceptor for Data Analytics and Advanced Data Analytics rotations.
Dr. Terry Bosen, PharmD
Dr. Bosen received her Doctor of Pharmacy from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1997. She completed a PGY1 ASHP accredited residency in pharmacy practice at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS in 1998. Dr. Bosen continued there as a pharmacist manager of a critical access hospital in Iuka, MS, and then as a clinical consult pharmacist and preceptor in General Medicine in Tupelo. She worked for UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA from 2000 - 2006 as a surgical satellite staff pharmacist and then as the pharmacy supervisor of surgical satellites. In 2006 Dr. Bosen moved to Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a pharmacist and later as a pharmacy supervisor. She serves as Adjunct Faculty to several colleges of Pharmacy. Since 2014 she is the Medication Safety Program Director in the Quality Safety & Risk Prevention department. Dr. Bosen enjoys leading multidisciplinary workgroups and completing process improvement cycles.
Dr. Bosen precepts the Medication Safety rotation.
Dr. Matt Marshall, PharmD
Dr. Marshall received a B.S. (Biology), B.A (Mathematics) from Gonzaga University, his Pharm.D. from the University of Colorado, a PGY1 clinical residency at the Zablocki VA in Milwaukee, WI, and completed his PGY2 Informatics residency at Vanderbilt in 2009. He works in the Vanderbilt Department of Pharmaceutical Services and has focused on data analytics, rapid application development, drug supply chain cost-minimizations, and 340B business logic/rules.
Dr. Marshall co-precepts Advanced Data Analytics rotations.
Dr. Joseph LeGrand, PharmD, MS
Dr. LeGrand earned his PharmD from Butler University and a Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) from the University of Illinois Chicago. He began his career in retail pharmacy as a pharmacist and pharmacy manager. Joseph joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2015 as a Principal Domain Specialist for VUMC's custom e-prescribing application at the time. During the VUMC Epic go-live, he helped with the strategy and execution of transitioning legacy Clinical Decision Support (CDS) such as Order Sets, BPAs, and other clinical workflows to Epic. In his current role as Principal Data Architect, he continues to contribute to CDS analysis, build, and strategy across the organization – including helping to sustainable integrate custom development and data teams better within the Epic-centric ecosystem. Personally, Joseph dabbles in software development and drug data analysis, and tries to apply this to his rotations if applicable. Research Gate Profile
Dr. LeGrand co-precepts the Advanced Clinical Decision Support rotation.