Corporate Collaborations
Dr. Osterman maintains research, advisory, and standards-development collaborations with the companies below. Engagements are tracked through Vanderbilt Health's conflict-of-interest process and the CMS Open Payments database, both linked publicly below. Consulting, advising, and speaking engagements are managed through WSOR, LLC.
GE HealthCare Strategic research collaboration, 2019–2024
Dr. Osterman led the GE HealthCare partnership and served as PI on the flagship Digital Precision Oncology study, applying machine learning to predict immune checkpoint inhibitor effectiveness and toxicity. The multi-year collaboration spanned oncology, radiochemistry, and imaging - producing 4 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 8 published abstracts, and 12 conference presentations. Flagship result: Lippenszky et al., JCO CCI 2024.
Epic Multi-year, multi-level EHR collaboration
Epic is the EHR platform anchoring Dr. Osterman's clinical informatics work. He serves on the Adult Oncology Steering Committee, founded the Beacon Community Operations Group, and is PI on the AI-extracted oncology staging workflow built into Epic Hyperspace. Featured speaker at Epic's User Group (UGM) and Expert Group (XGM) meetings on community governance, genomic data backloading, and in-basket workflow.
Microsoft Investigator Fellowship and Azure research collaboration
Selected as a Microsoft Investigator Fellow (2020) for work leveraging Azure-based virtualization to scale clinical informatics education across undergraduate and graduate medical training - a two-year, $200,000 grant as PI. Continues to serve on the Microsoft Azure Research Community Advisory Board (AMC CAB) on structured genomic data, FHIR-based research infrastructure, and the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE™) data standard.
Tempus AI Multi-year precision-oncology platform partnership
Multi-year collaboration with Tempus AI on three workstreams: structured electronic integration of genomic results into clinical workflows, digital pathology, and multi-omic discovery infrastructure. The genomic-results integration was profiled by VUMC News in November 2024 as part of a broader effort to make reference-laboratory data first-class within the electronic health record.
nference Research-data infrastructure partnership
Dr. Osterman leads Vanderbilt Health's partnership with nference to reduce the friction of accessing clinical data for research while preserving privacy and regulatory compliance. The collaboration was formalized in a 2023 agreement to advance real-world evidence generation in complex disease populations.
NCCN Digital Oncology Forum and AI thought leadership
Member of the NCCN Digital Oncology Forum and an active voice across NCCN policy and clinical channels. Featured speaker at the 2026 NCCN Annual Conference on AI's role in cancer care - with the framing of regulation, integration, and clinical impact published in JNCCN and featured in Oncodaily.
Disclosures
These collaborations are publicly disclosed through two independent records. The CMS Open Payments record is required of every U.S. physician under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; the ASCO COI record is voluntary.
- ASCO COI disclosure - coi.asco.org/share/JAR-DHX7/Travis Osterman
- CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) - openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/1291957
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