Andrew Smith, MD, MSCI, MMHC

Dr. Smith is a Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt.  His interests include understanding and mitigating the cognitive burdens associated with interruptive alerts in an intensive care unit environment, designing frictionless points of access to data necessary to drive quality improvement and reduce unnecessary variation in the clinical setting,  the application of supervised machine learning approaches to better appreciate modifiable risk factors associated with postoperative clinical outcomes, and leveraging experience in clinical registries and data management to create linkages between large administrative and clinical datasets to better understand resource demands associated with high-quality care.   

Following residency in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, he completed clinical fellowships in both Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt, as well as a Senior Clinical Fellowship in Cardiac Intensive Care at Boston Children’s Hospital.  He earned a Masters of Science in Clinical Investigation at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (2007) and a Masters of Management in Health Care at the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management (2012).  He also holds Epic Physician Builder (Analytics) certification, and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Health and Clinical Informatics at Oregon Health Sciences University.