Research Supervision

Doctoral Dissertation Committee Members
2015-2016Hao 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
2015-2017Yongkang 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-presentMallary Myers, DNP in Nursing (Vanderbilt University)
Title: “Evaluation of an Electronic Scheduling System and Labor Management Dashboard” (Patricia Sengstack, Chair)
2022-present2022-present Robert (Alex) Becker, PhD in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University)
(Colin Walsh, Chair)
Masters Thesis Advisees
2017-2018Rose 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
2021-2022Robert (Alex) Becker, MS in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University)
Title: “Identifying Transgender Persons in All of Us” (Colin Walsh, Chair)
2021-presentBrian Douthit, PhD, MS in Biomedical Informatics (Vanderbilt University)
Title: “Quantifying Documentation Utility: Testing a Framework to Reduce Nurse Burden” (Michael Matheny, Chair)
2022-2023Holly Ende, MD, MS in Applied Clinical Informatics (Vanderbilt University)
2023-presentEric Brown, MD, PhD, MS in Applied Clinical Informatics (Vanderbilt University)
Postdoctoral Advisees
2020-2023Alison Carroll, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship Scholarship Oversight Committee (Derek Williams, David Johnson, Co-Chairs)
2021-2023Siru Liu, Biomedical Informatics Postdoctoral Fellow Mentoring Committee (Adam Wright, Primary Mentor)
Academic Advisees
2014-2015Jingwen Song, MSPH Advisor (Graduated)
Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2015-2017Aaron Pedeaux, MS Advisor (Graduated)
Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2014-2018Richard Davis, MD/MPH Advisor (Graduated)
Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2016-2018Yulong Bai, MSPH Advisor (Graduated)
Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
2017-2018Chenzhou Pan, MSPH Advisor
Global Biostatistics and Data Science, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Research Projects
2012Elise 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”
2012Caitlin 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”
2012Karthik 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”
2017Chenchen 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”
2019Lanxi (Nancy) Liu (Vanderbilt University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Evaluation of Biomedical Informatics Citation Statistics using a Google Scholar Scraper
2019Jackson 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
2019Sarah 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
2019Aileen Wright (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics Research Rotation, Nashville, TN
Project: Multiple Simultaneous Prescription Dosing Errors
2020Lindsey Knake (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics Research Rotation, Nashville, TN
Project: Pitfalls of Using Structured Data in a Pediatric De-identified Database
2020David Moreno (BYU-Idaho), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Evaluation of Groupers to Improve Clinical Decision Support
2021Anuska 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
2022Brian 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
2022Holly Ende (Vanderbilt University), Department of Biomedical Informatics, MSACI Research Practicum
Project: Development and validation of a clinical risk predictive model for postpartum hemorrhage
2022Rachel Curci (Miami University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Clinical Decision Support Measurement and Optimization
2022Caleb Donaldson (Martin Luther King Magnet High School), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Clinical Decision Support Measurement and Optimization
2023Ashley Kim (Vanderbilt University), Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Development and Evaluation of Patient-Facing Prostate Cancer Decision-Making App
2023Megan Wang (Vanderbilt University), SyBBURE Searle Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Evaluation of Cephalosporin Cross-Reactivity Alerts in Patients with Penicillin Allergies
2023Bashir Al Hussein Al Awamlh (Vanderbilt University), Public Health Practicum, Vanderbilt Master of Public Health (MPH) Program, Nashville, TN
Project: Prostate Cancer Decision-Making App