Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS
Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, MPH, MS, is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Vanderbilt Health. Dr. Kumah-Crystal's research focuses on communication and documentation in healthcare, information summarization, visualization, and generative artificial intelligence. She is particularly interested in exploring how these innovations can facilitate communication within the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and assessing their broader implications for health, education, and society.
At Vanderbilt HealthIT, Dr. Kumah-Crystal leads the development of Voice Assistant Technologies to enhance the usability of the EHR through natural language communication. She is the project lead for the Vanderbilt EHR Voice Assistant (VEVA) initiative, which aims to integrate voice user interfaces into the EHR provider workflow. As a Clinical Director within VUMC HealthIT, Dr. Kumah-Crystal collaborates across clinical systems to review and advise on EHR change and integrations.
Dr. Kumah-Crystal remains clinically active in pediatric endocrinology and helps direct Vanderbilt's Camp Sugar Falls pediatric Diabetes Camp.