Dara Mize, MD

Dr. Mize is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Vanderbilt Health (appointed February 2023). She serves on the HealthIT executive team as the primary liaison to clinical leadership across Vanderbilt Health. She also leads a team of clinical directors who have extensive expertise in clinical informatics. These clinical directors work with HealthIT experts to analyze, develop and implement solutions that optimize the use of technology and its impact on caring for Vanderbilt's patients and families.

Dr. Mize is also Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. She is a practicing Endocrinologist and Clinical Informaticist. In addition to her clinical practice, where she focuses on diabetes and thyroid disease, she is an Associate Program Director for the Clinical Informatics fellowship at Vanderbilt Health. She is board certified in internal medicine, diabetes endocrinology & metabolism and clinical informatics and completed a Masters of Science in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt.   

Within endocrinology, Dr. Mize has had clinical interests in the management of diabetes in hospitalized patients. Her work has included evaluation of novel therapies in hospitalized patients with diabetes and in the management of patients with diabetes across transitions of care, as well as leveraging technology to improve quality of care in hospitalized patients.

As Chief Medical Information Officer for HealthIT, Dr. Mize serves as the primary liaison between HealthIT and clinical leadership across VUMC and leads a team of clinical informatics leaders. She partners with clinical, operational, and technology teams to shape, prioritize, implement, and evaluate informatics solutions that advance patient safety, quality, clinician efficiency, and effective care delivery. Her work spans EHR optimization, clinical decision support, digital health and emerging technologies, with a focus on aligning technology with clinical workflows and guiding adoption and change across the health system.