Shane Stenner, MD, MS

Shane Stenner, MD, MS, is an Instructor of Biomedical Informatics, with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University.  Dr. Stenner is currently the project director of RxStar, the outpatient electronic prescribing system of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and project director for the Vanderbilt Outpatient Order Management system (VOOM).  His research, and affiliated publications, define generic substitution clinical decision support through novel user-interface changes in electronic prescribing systems, approaches to natural language processing of medication lists and patient text messages about medications, tools to automate mobile phone and web-based medication self-management systems, and innovative uses of patient portal sites. 

Dr. Stenner is an ABIM Board Certified physician who remains clinically active.  He currently supervises Internal Medicine clinic residents and sees his own clinic patients one day per week, using the clinical tools that he helps to develop.  At home, Shane enjoys spending time with his singer-songwriter wife Hillary, son Tobin and 150 lb horse/dog George.

He received his M.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his M.S. in biomedical informatics from Vanderbilt University.