Public Biography
Dr. Michael Matheny is the Director for the Center for Improving the Publics' Health with Informatics and Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine, and Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is also a part-time primary care physician, physician scientist, board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics, and Associate Director of HSR&D VINCI at the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA, Nashville, TN. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, and elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation. He received his MD from the University of Kentucky, an MS in Informatics from Massachusetts Institution of Technology, and an MPH from Harvard University. Dr. Matheny's work has focused on developing and adapting signal detection and machine learning methods for post-marketing medical device surveillance and for probabilistic phenotyping, natural language processing, and risk prediction modeling primarily among patients with acute kidney injury. Dr. Matheny has successfully competed for extramural funding as a single or multiple principal investigator from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, and the NIH National Heart Lung and Blood Institute as well as Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Mathenyís work has resulted in lead and collaborating authorship in over 140 peer reviewed manuscripts, including articles in New England Journal of Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Matheny has been a continuous member in AMIA since 2004, having served as an AMIA Poster Judge for 5 years, elected member-at-large in the Clinical Research Informatics Working Group (2009-2011), regular AMIA peer reviewer, 2015 SPC Member (Foundations Track), and 2020 SPC Member (Applications Track).
Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Matheny organized the VA enterprise data warehouse to contribute as partner for clinical data research networks. The VA typically does not allow EHR data to be analyzed outside its enclave, so he paved the way for software for distributed analytics that he helped develop be implemented at the VA. Dr. Matheny has consistently been an author of peer reviewed publications in informatics journals starting in 2005 every year to 2018. He has made sustained contributions to informatics in the areas of automated medical device surveillance (JAMIA, JAMA, NEJM), and his surveillance tools are now in use in the medical device industry, by the FDA, and in academia.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2018
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2022