Travis Osterman, DO, MS, FAMIA, FASCO
Dr. Osterman is a practicing medical oncologist, informatician, Associate Vice President for Research Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and clinical informatics and completed a Master of Science in biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University. He has dual faculty appointments at VUMC in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology.
Dr. Osterman's clinical interest within oncology is lung cancer. His research focuses on applying clinical informatics methods across the cancer care continuum. He has worked to improve access to tumor genomics for patients and investigators. As part of this work his teams develop tools used for research and to support patient care directly.
Nationally, Dr. Osterman is involved in several national efforts to improve the availability of oncology-specific EHR data to support quality improvement across oncology practices. Dr. Osterman is Chair of the Minimum Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE™) Executive Committee. He also serves on the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Electronic Health Record (EHR) workgroup, Epic Adult Oncology Steering Board and chairs Epic's Beacon Community Operations Group.