Julia Groh

Julia
Groh
Senior Project Manager
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Suite 1450
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
julia.groh@vumc.org

Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI

Adam
Wright
PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI
Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Director
Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC)
Professor
Department of Medicine
Phone
615-875-5216
2525 West End Avenue
Suite 1475
Room / Suite
14109
Nashville
37203
adam.wright@vumc.org

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.

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Samantha Beik

Samantha
Beik
PhD Student
Cancer Biology Graduate Program
samantha.p.beik.1@vumc.org

Dora Obodo

Dora
Obodo
PhD Student
Department of Quantitative and Chemical Biology
dora.obodo@vanderbilt.edu

Barrett Jones

Barrett
Jones
PhD Student
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
barrett.jones@vanderbilt.edu

Barrett Jones – completed his Bachelor of Science in Statistical Science, April 2015, from

Brigham Young University and a Master of Arts in Statistics, June 2019, from Columbia

University. Barrett was a PhD student funded by the NLM Training Grant (completed in 2024). 

Russ Leftwich, MD

Russ
Leftwich
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
russell.b.leftwich@vumc.org

Aileen Wright, MD

Aileen
Wright
Instructor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Instructor
Department of Medicine
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
aileen.p.wright.1@vumc.org

Aileen Wright, MD, MS, is a board-certified internal medicine physician and clinical informatician. She received her MD from Yale University, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an informatics fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and is currently a practicing primary care physician and Instructor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at VUMC. Her research lies at the intersection of patient safety, quality, and health information technology. As leader of the VUMC Department of Medicine’s Epic physician builder program, she engineers and supports the development of tools for patient safety and quality improvement at VUMC. Her current projects include using machine learning to predict hypoglycemia in patients prescribed insulin, a randomized trial developed in collaboration with the Learning Health System at VUMC to study clinical decision support interventions to improve statin prescribing in primary care, and applications of large language models to healthcare. In 2024, she received a K23 award from NIDDK on the topic of preventing hypoglycemia in hospitalized patients.