Now
This is a now page - a snapshot of what has my attention this season. It is kept honest by the same source-of-truth library that drives the rest of the site, so it updates when new work actually lands, not on a schedule.
Current focus
Day to day I practice medical oncology and lead research informatics at Vanderbilt Health, and I chair the mCODE Executive Committee. The through-line right now is the same one the whole site is about: getting clinical oncology, applied AI, and health-data standards to actually interoperate. That means structured genomics in the electronic health record, real-world prediction of immunotherapy outcomes and toxicity, and keeping mCODE usable as it becomes regulatory infrastructure for the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model.
The roles that anchor that work today:
- Associate Vice President for Research Informatics, Vanderbilt Health
- Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Vanderbilt Health
- Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Co-Director, Data Science Shared Resource, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Medicine (Division of Hematology and Oncology), Vanderbilt Health
- Chair, mCODE Executive Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology
More on each: leadership & governance · six domains of expertise · full bio.
Recent activity
New publications, invited talks, scientific-meeting presentations, and press - drawn from the same library that drives /research/, /speaking/, and /press/. Last updated: .
Latest (last 12 months)
- Invited talk HL7 International Working Group Meeting (Europe): "mCODE Overview and Current State". May 18, 2026
- Invited talk Vanderbilt Lecture Series CME (Nashville, Tennessee): "Using AI in Clinical Practice: Current Trends and Emerging Federal Regulations". May 7, 2026
- Abstract Abstract LB385: Polygenic risk score of genetic variants in genes encoding drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters, in association with febrile neutropenia. Cancer Research. Apr 17, 2026
- Invited talk 2026 NCCN Annual Conference (Orlando, Florida): "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Oncology Care". Mar 28, 2026
- Invited talk NASEM Workshop: Policy Issues for Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research and Care (Washington, DC): "AI in Cancer Care: 2 Wins, 2 Current Challenges". Mar 9, 2026
- Invited talk Jackson-Madison County General Hospital (Jackson, Tennessee): "An Update on the Use of AI in Clinical Practice". Mar 6, 2026
- Invited talk Blanchfield Army Community Hospital (Fort Campbell, Kentucky (virtual)): "Using AI in Clinical Practice: Current Trends and Emerging Federal Regulations". Feb 10, 2026
- Peer-reviewed publication SmokeBERT and Beyond: Bridging Clinical Narratives and Structured Smoking Data To Improve Lung Cancer Screening. JCO clinical cancer informatics. Dec 22, 2025
- Invited talk "Leveraging Data to Day-to-Day Improvements". Oct 31, 2025
- Peer-reviewed publication Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential After Radiation Therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics. Oct 24, 2025
- Peer-reviewed publication Introducing mCODEGPT as a zero-shot information extraction from clinical free text data tool for cancer research. Communications Medicine. Oct 15, 2025
- Patent Model generation apparatus for therapeutic prediction and associated methods and models. Sep 18, 2025
- Scientific meeting presentation The Evolving Artificial Intelligence Landscape in Cancer Care: "AI and the Cancer Journey: Navigating New Frontiers in Policy and Technology". Sep 9, 2025
- Peer-reviewed publication Artificial intelligence across the cancer care continuum. Cancer. Aug 15, 2025
- Peer-reviewed publication Advancing the science of genomic learning healthcare systems. Learning Health Systems. Jul 23, 2025
Latest writing
Longer arguments live in Essays; quick reactions to new research, policy, and product launches live in Notes. Most recent:
Essays
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Bringing genomics out of the PDF and into the chart
A tumor sequencing result that lives as a faxed PDF can't trigger an alert, match a trial, or warn the next oncologist, and most of them still do.
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The oncologist's case for clinical informatics as a discipline
If you've never written a note in the system you're trying to fix, you will optimize the wrong thing.
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Predicting immunotherapy toxicity before it happens
The data to flag who will develop immune-related toxicity is already in the chart; we just haven't been reading it for that.
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