Research Program

Current Support

2022-present

Care Transitions App for Patients with Multiple Chronic Conditions

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R01 HS 028007), $2,000,000 ($387,745 site total)

Role: Site PI (Lipika Samal/Patricia C. Dykes, PI)

NIH RePORTER

2024-present

Bytes to Bedside; Collaborative Development for Translational Clinical Decision Support

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UG3 TR 004803), $1,019,879 ($321,863 site total)

Role: Site PI (7.5-15% FTE; Eric Kirkendall, PI)

NIH RePORTER

Past Support

2006-2008

Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program

National Library of Medicine (T15 LM 007450)

Role: Training Fellow (100% FTE; Cynthia S. Gadd, PI)

2008-2010

Information Systems for Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury

National Library of Medicine (R01 LM 00965), $998,250

Role: PhD Candidate, (100% FTE; Josh F. Peterson, PI)

NIH RePORTER

2010-2012

National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare

Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, SHARP Program Award (#10510949), $15,000,000

Role: Project Co-Investigator (50% FTE; Jiajie Zhang, PI)

SHARPC

2012-2013

InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical Decision Support

UTHealth Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Award (KL2 TR 000370)

Role: Scholar (75% FTE)

2012-2015

Improving Lab Order, Verification, and Follow-Up Processes at UT Physicians

The University of Texas System’s Systems Engineering in Healthcare Initiative, $250,000

Role: Clinical Informaticist (10% FTE; Eric Thomas, PI)

2013-2016

Ochsner-Tulane PSA

Ochsner Health System

Role: Investigator (10% FTE)

2013-2016

InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical Decision Support

National Library of Medicine (K22 LM 011430), $372,049

Role: Principal Investigator (75% FTE)

NIH RePORTER

2014-2015

Louisiana Clinical Data Research Network (LACDRN), Louisiana Public Health Institute, Tulane University Subaward

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Clinical Data Research Networks, $6,975,738

Role: Co-Investigator (10% FTE; Tom Carton, PI; Vivian Fonseca, Subaward PI)

PCORI

2016-2018

Electronic Health Record Safety: Developing Framework-Based Measures and Identifying Best Practices

National Library of Medicine (R21 LM 012448), $421,096

Role: Principal Investigator (30% FTE)

NIH RePORTER

2017-2018

EHR-Based Measurement of Care Coordination in an Accountable Care Organization

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R03 HS 024637), $99,222

Role: Principal Investigator (15% FTE)

NIH RePORTER

2019-2020

Improving Clinical Decision Support Reliability using Anomaly Detection Methods

National Library of Medicine (R01 LM 011966), $2,392,122

Role: Co-Investigator (40% FTE; Adam Wright, PI)

NIH RePORTER

2019-2021

Clinical Decision Support for Pain Management

 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks
(ACTION) III (Contract Number: 233201500024I)

Role: Co-Investigator (5% FTE; Asli Weitkamp/Trent Rosenbloom, Subcontract PI; Laura Marcial, PI)

CDS4PM

2019-2021

Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP)/IBM Artificial Intelligence 2019 Summer Internship

Role: Co-PI (2% FTE)

2019-2021

Safety Promotion through Early Event Detection in the Elderly (SPEEDe)

National Institute on Aging (R01 AG 062499), $2,822,714

Role: Co-Investigator (10-20% FTE; Adam Wright, PI)

NIH RePORTER

2022-2023

Clinical Decision Support Innovation Collaborative (CDSiC)

 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Accelerating Change and Transformation in Organizations and Networks (ACTION) IV (Contract Number: 75Q80120D00018), $6,200,000

Role: Workgroup Co-Lead (Prashila Dullabh, PI; Jerry Osheroff, Workgroup Lead)

CDSiC

2019-2023

Electronic Tools to Increase Recognition and Improve Primary Care Management for Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (R01 DK 116898), $4,265,106

Role: Co-Investigator (10% FTE; Lipika Samal, PI)

NIH RePORTER

Trainee Support

2022-present

Optimizing Clinical Decision Support Alerts Using Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)

National Library of Medicine (K99 LM 014097)

Role: Co-Mentor (Siru Liu, PI; Adam Wright, Primary Mentor)

NIH RePORTER