Join us!
March WiTT Meeting featuring
Dr. Gretchen Purcell-Jackson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Box lunch provided.
11:30-12:00 Registration and Networking
12:00-1:00 Program
Gretchen Purcell Jackson, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Jackson is an accomplished clinical surgeon and internationally recognized informatician with over 20 years of contributions to surgical science, informatics research, and innovations in health information technologies. She earned her Ph.D. in Medical Informatics at Stanford University in 1997, and she held informatics faculty and leadership positions at three universities during her surgical residency and fellowship. Dr. Jackson’s current research is focused on empowering patients and families through health information technologies. She is the research director of the My Health at Vanderbilt patient portal, and her work explores the use of and disparities created by such technologies. The Agency for Health Research and Policy awarded Dr. Jackson a $1.5 million grant to study of the information needs of pregnant women and their caregivers to inform the design of health information technologies. Dr. Jackson is an active surgical and informatics leader. She is a member of the Board of Governors for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, and she has chaired informatics committees at the American College of Surgeons, Association for Academic Surgery, and American Pediatric Surgical Association. She has served on the editorial boards of the British Medical Journal, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and Applied Clinical Informatics. In January of 2014, Dr. Jackson joined the first class of 455 diplomates who became board certified in the new specialty of Clinical Informatics, and she has chaired the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee for the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
