Michael Matheny, MD, MS, MPH is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics with secondary appointments in Medicine and Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and is an Informatics Health Services Research Scientist, the Associate Director of VINCI, and Associate Director of VA Medical Informatics Fellowship at Tennessee Valley Healthcare System VA.  He is also Co-Director for the Center for Improving Patient’s Health with Informatics, and is a board certified in Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.  He earned his MD from the University of Kentucky, an MS in Informatics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an MPH from Harvard University.  He is an elected fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Medical Informatics.  He is a nationally recognized investigator in predictive analytics, machine learning, automated medical device surveillance, and natural language processing.  His work focuses on studying how to best leverage large electronic health record data for discovery or risk prediction using both structured data and NLP derived data.