Microsoft Investigator Fellowship and Azure research collaboration, 2020-present

Dr. Osterman was selected as a Microsoft Investigator Fellow in 2020 - a two-year, $200,000 award - for work leveraging Azure-based virtualization to scale clinical informatics education across undergraduate and graduate medical training. The fellowship funded the cloud infrastructure that lets learners build and test against realistic clinical data and systems without the licensing and security overhead that typically makes hands-on informatics education impractical. The infrastructure is now part of the Vanderbilt CI Integrated Science Curriculum and the GME Clinical Informatics Elective Rotation (see CI education).

Beyond the fellowship, Dr. Osterman serves on the Microsoft Azure Research Community Advisory Board (AMC CAB), contributing on structured genomic data, FHIR-based research infrastructure, and the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE™) standard. The mCODE Genomics Pilot at Vanderbilt (Li et al., JCO CCI, 2024) was built on Azure, demonstrating an end-to-end FHIR-on-Azure pipeline lifting structured genomic data out of Epic into mCODE-conformant resources.