Timeline

One reverse-chronological view of the work: appointments, degrees, board certifications, national service, and the peer-reviewed record, year by year. Roles and service sit at the year they began; degrees, training, and certifications at the year they were completed. Career milestones come from the CV; publication counts and highlights are synced from the same Zotero library that drives the rest of the site. Last updated: .

2020s

  1. 2025

    7 publications

    Publications 7 peer-reviewed publications

    1. SmokeBERT and Beyond: Bridging Clinical Narratives and Structured Smoking Data To Improve Lung Cancer Screening. JCO clinical cancer informatics.
    2. Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential After Radiation Therapy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics.
    3. Introducing mCODEGPT as a zero-shot information extraction from clinical free text data tool for cancer research. Communications Medicine.

    4 more from 2025 on /research/

  2. 2024

    5 publications

    Publications 5 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements Genomics Pilot Project: Enhancing Oncology Research Through Electronic Health Record Interoperability at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
    2. The importance of studying the implementation of cancer data standards. Cancer.
    3. Integrating electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate cancer biomarker testing: Real-world implementation barriers and solutions.. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

    2 more from 2024 on /research/

  3. 2023

    8 publications
    • Role Associate Vice President for Research Informatics, Vanderbilt Health since 2023
    • Role Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Vanderbilt Health since 2023
    • Role Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center since 2023
    • Role Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Medicine (Division of Hematology and Oncology), Vanderbilt University Medical Center since 2023
    • Honor Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO), American Society of Clinical Oncology

    Publications 8 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Clinician Perspectives Regarding the Impact of Information Technology on Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards: A National Comprehensive Cancer Network Survey. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
    2. Next-generation phenotyping: introducing phecodeX for enhanced discovery research in medical phenomics. Bioinformatics.
    3. Accuracy and Reliability of Chatbot Responses to Physician Questions. JAMA Network Open.

    5 more from 2023 on /research/

  4. 2022

    6 publications
    • Service Chair, Executive Committee, mCODE (minimal Common Oncology Data Elements), American Society of Clinical Oncology since 2022
      Chairs governance of the FHIR-based oncology data standard, implemented at more than 70 institutions across six countries and the data-submission path for the CMS Enhancing Oncology Model.

    Publications 6 peer-reviewed publications

    1. A Unified Approach to Clinical Informatics Education for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education. AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium.
    2. Associations of influenza vaccination with severity of immune-related adverse events in patients with advanced thoracic cancers on immune checkpoint inhibitors. ERJ open research.
    3. Two Uncomplicated Pregnancies on Alectinib in a Woman With Metastatic ALK-Rearranged NSCLC: A Case Report. JTO Clinical and Research Reports.

    3 more from 2022 on /research/

  5. 2021

    8 publications
    • Service Member, Azure Research Community Advisory Board, Microsoft since 2021

    Publications 8 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Oncologist Perspectives on Telemedicine for Patients With Cancer: A National Comprehensive Cancer Network Survey. JCO Oncology Practice.
    2. Follow-up Interactive Long-Term Expert Ranking (FILTER): a crowdsourcing platform to adjudicate risk for survivorship care. JAMIA open.
    3. My Cancer Genome: Coevolution of Precision Oncology and a Molecular Oncology Knowledgebase. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.

    5 more from 2021 on /research/

  6. 2020

    3 publications
    • Honor Microsoft Investigator Fellowship, Microsoft

    Publications 3 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Improving Cancer Data Interoperability: The Promise of the Minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) Initiative. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
    2. Seven decades of chemotherapy clinical trials: a pan-cancer social network analysis. Scientific Reports.
    3. Trends in FDA cancer registration trial design over time, 1969-2020.. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

2010s

  1. 2019

    4 publications
    • Role Director of Cancer Clinical Informatics, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center since 2019
    • Role Co-Director, Data Science Shared Resource, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center since 2019
    • Service Member, Adult Oncology Steering Board, Epic since 2019
    • Service Founding Chair, Beacon Community Operations Group, Epic 2019-2025
    • Honor Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), American Medical Informatics Association

    Publications 4 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Conceptual Framework to Support Clinical Trial Optimization and End-to-End Enrollment Workflow. JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics.
    2. Hypertension and use of bevacizumab among patients treated in community settings.. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
    3. Learnings from a pragmatic study to evaluate benefit of performing reflex clinical trial matching and providing clinical decision support to physicians.. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

    1 more from 2019 on /research/

  2. 2018

    2 publications
    • Service Member, Electronic Health Record Workgroup, National Comprehensive Cancer Network since 2018

    Publications 2 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Impact of the influenza vaccination on cancer patients undergoing therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI).. Journal of Clinical Oncology.
    2. Phenotype risk scores identify patients with unrecognized Mendelian disease patterns. Science.

  3. 2017

    2 publications
    • Education Vanderbilt University, Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics

    Publications 2 peer-reviewed publications

    1. Evaluating phecodes, clinical classification software, and ICD-9-CM codes for phenome-wide association studies in the electronic health record. PloS One.
    2. Utility of adding clinical data to a molecular results portal for improving clinical trial prescreening efficiency.. Journal of Clinical Oncology.

  4. 2016

    • Role Clinical Director, Office of the Chief Health Information Officer, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2016-2023
    • Training Fellowship, Medical Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2013-2016
    • Board cert Board Certification in Medical Oncology, American Board of Internal Medicine
    • Board cert Board Certification in Clinical Informatics, American Board of Preventive Medicine
    • Honor Young Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer Foundation

  5. 2015

    1 publication

    Publications 1 peer-reviewed publication

    1. Advances in website information resources to aid in clinical practice. American Society of Clinical Oncology educational book / ASCO. American Society of Clinical Oncology. Meeting.

  6. 2012

    • Training Internship and Residency (Chief Resident, 2012), Internal Medicine, Indiana University 2009-2012

2000s

  1. 2009

    • Education Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine

  2. 2004

    1 publication

    Publications 1 peer-reviewed publication

    1. A software utility for creating interactive maps for 2D gel-based proteomics. Analytical Biochemistry.

  3. 2003

    • Education University of Indianapolis, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Biology, magna cum laude

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