Clinical Informatics Lecture Series

Clinical Informatics Through the Decades: What We've Learned and How We Work Now

Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI

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Adam Wright, PhD, FACMI, FAMIA, FIAHSI is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and serves as the director of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC).

He has led NIH, AHRQ and ONC-funded projects on clinical problem lists, malfunctions in clinical decision support systems, approaches for sharing clinical decision support nationally, and adverse event detection using machine learning. Dr. Wright has authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal publications and more than 150 additional publications, including abstracts, presentations at scientific meetings, books, and book chapters. He is also a committed teacher, directing and lecturing in local, national, and international courses on biomedical informatics, and teaching medical students and graduate students in biomedical informatics.

Dr. Wright directs clinical decision support operations at VUMC, and previously served as clinical lead for clinical decision support and clinical informatics at MassGeneral Brigham in Boston.  He is active nationally, serving as a board member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), an Associate Editor for Applied Clinical Informatics and an Editorial Board Member for Methods of Information in Medicine. Dr. Wright is also a founding member and director of research for the Clinical Informatics Research Collaborative.

Dr. Wright's work has been recognized through numerous awards, including the American Medical Informatics Association New Investigator Award (2010), election to the American College of Medical Informatics (2015), the Early Career Achievement Award from Oregon Health and Science University (2016), election to the inaugural class of the Fellowship of the American Medical Informatics Association (2018), and election to the International Academy of Health Science Informatics (2019). In 2023, he received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from AMIA.

A decade of clinical informatics fellowship training: how far we've come and where we're going

Jonathan Hron, MD

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Dr. Hron attended medical school at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and completed his residency in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center. He continued on as a Chief Resident at Boston Children’s Hospital, where he began practicing Clinical Informatics. As a faculty member he has devoted his career to improving systems of care through the implementation of information technology, including electronic health records, HIPAA compliant text communication systems, telehealth and artificial intelligence. He is a staunch advocate for data driven decision making in clinical informatics as well as the secondary use of clinical data for research and quality improvement. In 2015 he co-founded the Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program, one of the first ACGME approved pediatric Clinical Informatics training programs in the country. Clinically, Dr. Hron cares for hospitalized patients on the general pediatrics and complex care services at Boston Children's.

10 Years of the HCILS: A Conversation with Dr. Zak Kohane

Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Isaac (Zak) Kohane, as we kick off the 10th year of the Harvard Clinical Informatics Lecture Series

Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, is the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, whose mission is to develop the methods, tools, and infrastructure required for a new generation of scientists and care providers to move biomedicine rapidly forward by taking advantage of the insight and precision offered by big data. Kohane develops and applies computational techniques to address disease at multiple scales, from whole health care systems to the functional genomics of neurodevelopment. He also has worked on AI applications in medicine since the 1990’s, including automated ventilator control, pediatric growth monitoring, detection of domestic abuse, diagnosing autism from multimodal data and most recently assisting clinicians using whole genome sequence and clinical histories to diagnose rare or unknown disease patients. He is the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of NEJM AI and co-author of a recent book “The AI Revolution in Medicine". He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American College of Medical Informatics.