Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI, is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serves as the director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC).

He has led NIH, AHRQ and ONC-funded projects on clinical problem lists, malfunctions in clinical decision support systems, approaches for sharing clinical decision support nationally, and adverse event detection using machine learning. Dr. Wright has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications and more than 150 additional publications, including abstracts, presentations at scientific meetings, books, and book chapters. He is also a committed teacher, directing and lecturing in local, national, and international courses on biomedical informatics, and teaching medical students and graduate students in biomedical informatics.

Dr. Wright directs clinical decision support operations at VUMC, and previously served as clinical lead for clinical decision support and clinical informatics at MassGeneral Brigham in Boston.  He is active nationally, serving as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), an Associate Editor for Applied Clinical Informatics and an Editorial Board Member for Methods of Information in Medicine. Dr. Wright is also a founding member and director of research for the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative.

Dr. Wright's work has been recognized through numerous awards, including the American Medical Informatics Association New Investigator Award (2010), election to the American College of Medical Informatics (2015), the Early Career Achievement Award from Oregon Health and Science University (2016), election to the inaugural class of the Fellowship of the American Medical Informatics Association (2018), and election to the International Academy of Health Science Informatics (2019). In 2023, he received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from AMIA.