Andrew Smith, MD, MSCI, MMHC, MS

Dr. Smith is a Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care physician, Director of the Pediatric Heart Institute Clinical Informatics and Analytics core, and a Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt.  His interests include using social network analysis to better understand communication behaviors among inpatient providers to aid in the identification of patients at risk for clinical deterioration, designing frictionless points of access to data necessary to drive quality improvement and reduce unnecessary variation in the clinical setting, and leveraging experience in clinical registries and data management to create linkages between large administrative and clinical datasets to better understand resource demands associated with high-quality care.   

Following residency in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, he completed clinical fellowships in both Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt, as well as a Senior Clinical Fellowship in Cardiac Intensive Care at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He earned a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2007), a Masters of Management in Health Care at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management (2012), and a Master's degree in Health and Clinical Informatics at Oregon Health Sciences University (2024).  He also holds Epic Physician Builder (Analytics) certification and is a member of the Vanderbilt Data Access Working Group (VDAWGs).