Janey Wang, MS, MEng

Janey
Wang
Cheif Business Officer
Department of Biostatistics, VUMC
janey.wang@vumc.org

Robert Winter

Robert
Winter
Principal IT Project Manager
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37202
robert.winter@vumc.org

DBMI Welcomes New Employees

Dr. Kevin Johnson, DBMI Chair, and Elizabeth Brown, DBMI Chief Business Officer would like to extend their welcome to the new employees that have joined the department this year.  Welcome to: Danyel Campbell

Richard Noriega

Richard
Noriega
Application Developer
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
richard.noriega@vumc.org

Grahame Evans

Grahame
Evans
PhD Student
Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
grahame.evans@Vanderbilt.Edu

Blythe Hospelhorn

Blythe
Hospelhorn
PhD Student
Department of Quantitative Systems Biology
blythe.hospelhorn@Vanderbilt.Edu

Kaitlin "Katie" Williamson, MD

Kaitlin
"Katie"
Williamson
MS Postdoctoral Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Ave.
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
kaitlin.williamson@vumc.org

Katie completed her Doctor of Medicine, May 2015, from Baylor College of Medicine. Katie is a Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is a Master's student funded by the NLM Training Grant.

 

John Shelley

John
Shelley
PhD Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Ave.
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
john.p.shelley@vanderbilt.edu

John completed his Bachelor of Science, May 2016, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. John is in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He is pursuing a PhD funded by MSTP.

Megan Salwei, PhD

Megan
E.
Salwei
Assistant Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Ave.
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
megan.salwei@vumc.org

Megan Salwei, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology within the Center for Research and Innovation in Systems Safety (CRISS). Dr. Salwei received her PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she completed the National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University, working with Matthew Weinger. 

Using human factors engineering methods and principles, her research program focuses on the design and integration of information-rich technologies to support care processes and improve patient safety. She is interested in the design of HealthIT to support teamwork in healthcare, not just between clinicians, but between the entire healthcare team - clinicians, patients, and their family caregivers. She received a K01 award from AHRQ to design a team-based collaborative technology to improve personalized treatment decision making for breast cancer patients. 

Megan received the Vanderbilt K12 Learning Health Systems award. Her K12 title is “COMputerized PAtient-centered Collaborative Technology (COMPACT) to support breast cancer shared decision making”. Info on her research and project can be found here: https://www.vumc.org/implementation/2018-lhs-scholars

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zDQpT88AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Twitter: @megansalwei

Kevin "KJ" Krause

Kevin
"KJ"
Krause
PhD Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Ave.
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
kevin.krause.1@vumc.org

KJ completed his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, June 2019, from the University of California (Davis). KJ is a PhD student funded by the NLM Training Grant.