Alvin D. Jeffery, PhD, RN-BC, CCRN-K, FNP-BC
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Alvin D. Jeffery, PhD, RN-BC, CCRN-K, FNP-BC, received his PhD in Nursing Science from Vanderbilt University in May 2017.
Dr. Jeffery is an Assistant Professor with the School of Nursing and the Department of Biomedical Informatics. He joined DBMI's primary faculty on July 1, 2024.
He completed a medical informatics post-doctoral fellowship with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Nashville, TN. He has a background in pediatric critical care nursing and as a staff educator at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Jeffery focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of probability-based clinical decision support tools. He leverages machine learning and data science techniques for developing prediction models, and he incorporates qualitative methods for exploring how to implement CDS tools within nurses' cognitive and physical workflows. Dr. Jeffery has been elected to serve a 3-year term (2020-2023) on the Board of Directors for the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.
VU Email: alvin.d.jeffery@vanderbilt.edu
Twitter: @Nurse_Alvin
Website: http://www.quantitativenurse.com
Other website: http://nursingdatascience.org