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, Nashville, TN. He is also a part-time VA primary care physician, physician scientist, board certified in internal medicine and clinical informatics. Dr. Matheny’s work has focused on developing and adapting artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for medical product active surveillance, algorithm vigilance, probabilistic phenotyping, clinical summarization, and risk prediction modeling. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and American Medical Informatics Association, and an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.