ADVANCE Center — Health AI Lab Profile

Lab profile

About ADVANCE

ADVANCE empowers interdisciplinary collaboration between healthcare professionals, researchers, data scientists, and industry leaders to address complex challenges and drive transformative innovations in healthcare. Through data analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, and generative AI, the center focuses on innovation, integration, research, and education to enhance patient outcomes through operational support, clinical integration, and responsible AI implementation.

Data analyticsMachine learningPredictive modelingGenerative AIAI ethicsClinical AI integrationTranslational researchAI governance

01 · People

Leadership and researchers

People listed on the lab’s team pages, by role.

Susannah RoseDirector

Peter J. EmbíCo-Director · Co-Director, ADVANCE Center; Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics; Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation; Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Bradley MalinCo-Director · Co-Director, ADVANCE Center; Accenture Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics; Vice Chair for Research Affairs, Department of Biomedical Informatics; Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society; Accenture Professor, Department of Biostatistics; Accenture Professor, Computer S

Peter EmbiFaculty

Daniel FabbriMember, ADVANCE Center; Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics & Computer Science

Michael MathenyFaculty

Laurie NovakDeputy Director, ADVANCE Center; Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics

Colin WalshMember, ADVANCE Center; Associate Professor, Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Medicine & Psychiatry

Zhijun YinFaculty

02 · Research intelligence

Research Intelligence evidence

Publications, grants and clinical trials linked to the lab’s researchers in Health AI Central’s research data.

Research

Publications & preprints

Public Perceptions of Timeliness for AI Use and Human Oversight.JAMA network open · 2026
Beyond the Document: A Single-Center Qualitative Study of Survivorship Care Plan Barriers and Opportunities Across Pediatric Oncology Stakeholders.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2026
A reinforcement learning approach to synthetic data generation.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2026

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Funding

Active NIH grants

Genetic variant Evidence using Novel tools to Elucidate Pathophysiology: Accelerating Translation to Health (GenePath)Bradley Malin · NHGRI · FY 2026
Prediction of Anti-Cancer Medication Discontinuation via Patient Portal Messages and Structured Electronic Medical RecordsZhijun Yin · NCI · FY 2025

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Clinical validation

Clinical-trial records

AI-driven Clinical Decision Support to Reduce Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism: Study Protocol for the VTE-AI Randomized Trial.NCT06939803 · Recruiting

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03 · Updates

Updates and lab news

News and events from the lab’s own site.

ADVANCE 2025 Fall SymposiumEventOct 8, 2025
Experts Recommend National Health AI PrioritiesNewsFeb 13, 2025 · news.vumc.org
Fall 2024 ADVANCE SymposiumEventNov 5, 2024
Susannah Rose Discusses the Mission of ADVANCE at VUMCNewsSep 20, 2024 · medschool.vanderbilt.edu
OSIC Innovation Summit: AI in HealthcareEventSep 9, 2024
ADVANCE Center Launch EventEventMar 8, 2024
V-CARES Achieves ARPA-H Milestone 2Newsnews.vumc.org

04 · Official presence

Lab sources and channels

The lab’s own pages and accounts.

Website vumc.org ↗Team ↗Research ↗News ↗Events & programs ↗

05 · Related

Related labs and centers

Labs at the same institution and labs working on similar topics.

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