| Doctoral Dissertation Committee Members | |
| 2015-2016 | Hao He, PhD in Biostatistics (Tulane University) Title: “Integrative Network Analysis of High-Dimensional Biological Data in Complex Disease for Module Detection and Biomarker Discovery” (Graduated: Hong-Wen Deng, Chair) Current Position: Application Computational Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory |
| 2015-2017 | Yongkang Zhang, PhD in Global Health Management and Policy (Tulane University) Title: “Studies in the Implementation and Impact of Early Medicare Accountable Care Organizations” (Graduated: Mark Diana, Chair) Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate in Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College |
| 2019-present | Mallary Myers, DNP in Nursing (Vanderbilt University) Title: “Evaluation of an Electronic Scheduling System and Labor Management Dashboard” (Patricia Sengstack, Chair) |
| 2022-present | 2022-present Robert (Alex) Becker, PhD in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University) (Colin Walsh, Chair) |
| Masters Thesis Advisees | |
| 2017-2018 | Rose Goueth, MS in Biostatistics (Tulane University) Title: “Turning Off Alerts to Improve Clinician Override Rates: A Time Series Analysis of Multiple Interventions” (Graduated) Current Position: Pre-Doctoral Student in Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University |
| 2021-2022 | Robert (Alex) Becker, MS in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University) Title: “Identifying Transgender Persons in All of Us” (Colin Walsh, Chair) |
| 2021-present | Brian Douthit, PhD, MS in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University) Title: “Quantifying Documentation Utility: Testing a Framework to Reduce Nurse Burden” (Michael Matheny, Chair) |
| 2022-2023 | Holly Ende, MD, MS in Applied Clinical Informatics (Vanderbilt University) |
| 2023-present | Eric Brown, MD, PhD, MS in Applied Clinical Informatics (Vanderbilt University) |
| Postdoctoral Advisees | |
| 2020-2023 | Alison Carroll, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Scholarship Oversight Committee (Derek Williams, David Johnson, Co-Chairs) |
| 2021-2023 | Siru Liu, Biomedical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring Committee (Adam Wright, Primary Mentor) |
| Academic Advisees | |
| 2014-2015 | Jingwen Song, MSPH Advisor (Graduated) Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA |
| 2015-2017 | Aaron Pedeaux, MS Advisor (Graduated) Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA |
| 2014-2018 | Richard Davis, MD/MPH Advisor (Graduated) Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA |
| 2016-2018 | Yulong Bai, MSPH Advisor (Graduated) Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA |
| 2017-2018 | Chenzhou Pan, MSPH Advisor Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA |
| Research Projects | |
| 2012 | Elise Brune (Texas A&M University), CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Project, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX Contraindicated in Cancer Patients” |
| 2012 | Caitlin Keck (Cornell University), CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Project, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX Project: “Evaluation of a Support Vector Machine to Identify Relevant Notes for Patients with Colorectal Cancer” |
| 2012 | Karthik Sethuraman (The University of Pennsylvania), CPRIT Summer Undergraduate Cancer Research Project, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX Project: “Comparative Analysis of Association Rule Mining, Crowdsourcing, and NDF-RT Knowledge Bases for Problem-Medication Pair Generation” |
| 2017 | Chenchen Feng (Tulane University School of Medicine), UAB CCTS Summer Program in Comparative Effectiveness and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Project: “Evaluating Adverse Drug Events after Turning Off Low Priority Medication Alerts in an Ambulatory Setting” |
| 2019 | Lanxi (Nancy) Liu (Vanderbilt University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN Project: Evaluation of Biomedical Informatics Citation Statistics using a Google Scholar Scraper |
| 2019 | Jackson McNabb (Duke University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VUMC-IBM Watson Collaboration), Nashville, TN Project: Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence-Based Clinical Decision Support Implementation |
| 2019 | Sarah Wan (Vanderbilt University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VUMC-IBM Watson Collaboration), Nashville, TN Project: Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence-Based Clinical Decision Support Implementation |
| 2019 | Aileen Wright (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics Research Rotation, Nashville, TN Project: Multiple Simultaneous Prescription Dosing Errors |
| 2020 | Lindsey Knake (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics Research Rotation, Nashville, TN Project: Pitfalls of Using Structured Data in a Pediatric De-identified Database |
| 2020 | David Moreno (BYU-Idaho), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN Project: Evaluation of Groupers to Improve Clinical Decision Support |
| 2021 | Anuska Sharma (CUNY Hunter College), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Internship (VUMC-IBM Watson Collaboration), Nashville, TN Project: Machine learning-based prognostic analysis of COVID-19 patients using the Electronic Health Record (EHR) data |
| 2022 | Brian Douthit (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics Research Rotation, Nashville, TN Project: Quality versus Quantity: Assessing the Impact of Nursing Documentation on Preventing Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries |
| 2022 | Holly Ende (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics, MSACI Research Practicum Project: Development and validation of a clinical risk predictive model for postpartum hemorrhage |
| 2022 | Rachel Curci (Miami University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN Project: Clinical Decision Support Measurement and Optimization |
| 2022 | Caleb Donaldson (Martin Luther King Magnet High School), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN Project: Clinical Decision Support Measurement and Optimization |
| 2023 | Ashley Kim (Vanderbilt University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN Project: Development and Evaluation of Patient-Facing Prostate Cancer Decision-Making App |
| 2023 | Megan Wang (Vanderbilt University), SyBBURE Searle Program, Nashville, TN Project: Evaluation of Cephalosporin Cross-Reactivity Alerts in Patients with Penicillin Allergies |
| 2023 | Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh (Vanderbilt University), Public Health Practicum, Vanderbilt Master of Public Health (MPH) Program, Nashville, TN Project: Prostate Cancer Decision-Making App |