Research Program

Current Support
2022-presentCare 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
2022-presentBytes 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
2006-2012Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program
National Library of Medicine (T15 LM 007450)
Role: Training Fellow, 2006-2008 (Cynthia S. Gadd, PI)
2008-2011Information Systems for Detecting and Managing Acute Kidney Injury
National Library of Medicine (R01 LM00965), $330,524
Role: PhD Candidate, 2008-2010 (Josh F. Peterson, PI)
NIH RePORTER
2010-2014National 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, 2010-2012 (Jiajie Zhang, PI)
SHARPC
2012-2015InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical decision support
UTHealth Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences KL2 Award (KL2 TR 000370-06A1)
Role: Scholar, 2012-2013
2012-2015Improving 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 (Eric Thomas, PI)
2014-2015Louisiana 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 (Tom Carton, PI; Vivian Fonseca, Subaward PI)
PCORI
2013-2015InSPECt: Interactive Surveillance Portal for Evaluating Clinical decision support
National Library of Medicine (K22 LM 011430-01A1), $374,533
Role: Principal Investigator
NIH RePORTER
2013-2016Ochsner-Tulane PSA
Ochsner Health System, $12,925
Role: Investigator
2016-2018Electronic Health Record Safety: Developing Framework-Based Measures and Identifying Best Practices
National Library of Medicine (R21 LM 012448), $417,624
Role: Principal Investigator
NIH RePORTER
2017-2018EHR-Based Measurement of Care Coordination in an Accountable Care Organization
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (R03 HS 024637), $99,222
Role: Principal Investigator
NIH RePORTER
2019-2020Improving 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
2019-2021ACTION III: CDS for Pain Management, Research Triangle Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Subcontract
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Role: Co-Investigator (5% FTE; Asli Weitkamp/Trent Rosenbloom, Subcontract PI)
2019-2021Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP)/IBM Artificial Intelligence 2019 Summer Internship
Role: Co-PI (2% FTE)
2019-2021Safety Promotion through Early Event Detection in the Elderly (SPEEDe)
National Institute on Aging (R01 AG 062499)
Role: Co-Investigator (20% FTE; Adam Wright, PI)
NIH RePORTER
2022-2023Clinical 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
2019-2023Electronic 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-presentOptimizing 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