Adam Wright, PhD
Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serves as the director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC).
He has led NIH, AHRQ, and ONC-funded projects on clinical decision support, applied artificial intelligence, adverse event detection, safety, quality and clinical terminology. Dr. Wright has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications and more than 150 additional publications, including abstracts, presentations at scientific meetings, books, and book chapters. He is also a committed teacher, directing and lecturing in local, national, and international courses on biomedical informatics, and teaching medical students, graduate students, residents, and fellows in biomedical informatics.
Dr. Wright leads clinical decision support operations at VUMC and serves as a clinical director in VUMC's HealthIT department. He is active nationally, having served as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), an Associate Editor for Applied Clinical Informatics, an Editorial Board Member for Methods of Information in Medicine and Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Wright is also a founding member and director of research for the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative.
Dr. Wright's work has been recognized through numerous awards, including the American Medical Informatics Association New Investigator Award (2010), election to the American College of Medical Informatics (2015), the Early Career Achievement Award from Oregon Health and Science University (2016), election to the inaugural class of the Fellowship of the American Medical Informatics Association (2018), and election to the International Academy of Health Science Informatics (2019). In 2023, he received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from AMIA.