Sharidan Parr, MD, MSCI, MS
Sharidan K. Parr MD, MSCI, MS is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a practicing nephrologist, informatician, and a Clinical Director in the Office of the Chief Health Information Officer at VUMC. She received a B.S. in Chemistry at Creighton University and an M.D. from Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha, NE. She completed residency training at Creighton University Medical Center. She completed nephrology fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), during which time she obtained a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation, participating in research evaluating practice patterns and risk factors in acute kidney injury. She subsequently completed her Biomedical Informatics fellowship at the TVHS Veteran’s Administration and her M.S. Informatics through Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where her research focused on improving data quality and interoperability with the use of machine learning and standards in laboratory data. She is board certified in internal medicine, nephrology, and clinical informatics. She has expertise in data standards and terminologies, data architecture, common data models, clinical informatics, and health services research.
Dr. Parr’s Clinical Informatics interests involve health information exchange, system interfaces, and development and optimization of documentation and information delivery/retrieval tools within the EHR that support clinical care. She is a clinical liaison to the Laboratory Information System Committee and an operational leader for the Blood Bank System Software Upgrade Committee. She serves as the Clinician Champion for the Division on Nephrology, and is a member of the Chart Review Workgroup and the eStar Enhancement Request Workgroup.