Aileen Wright, MD

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.