Brandon Buxton, MS, received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Western Michigan University (December 2019) and a Master of Science degree (August 2023) from the University of Texas Health Science Center. Brandon is funded by the National Library of Medicine's training grant and is pursuing a PhD in biomedical informatics. 

Matthew Murrow completed his PhD defense in physics in July 2024 and received his degree from Vanderbilt University in August 2024. He is a postdoctoral fellow funded by the National Library of Medicine's training grant and is pursuing a master's degree in biomedical informatics. 

Rachael Miller received her PharmD degree from Belmont University (May 2024). She was a Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Summer Program (VBISP) intern in 2022. She is also a VA postdoctoral fellow and pursuing a master's degree in biomedical informatics. 

Dagmawi Negesse transferred from Vanderbilt University to VUMC's Department of Biomedical Informatics in the position of Project Manager under Alvin Jeffery effective September 2024. 

Mauli Vidyutbhai Shah, MPH, transferred to the Department of Biomedical Informatics effective August 2024 in the position of Health Services Research Analyst. She jointly supports Drs. Jessica Ancker, Bryan Steitz, and Tom Reese. 

PhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota

Research interests include: bioinformatics, causal inference, cancer genomics, computational biology, data science, high-dimensional statistics, machine learning

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Wendy K. Tam is Professor and Stevenson Chair of Computer Science, Political Science, Law, and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, an affiliate at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Professional Researcher in the School of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. She has been a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Society for Political Methodology, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford).