Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The eMERGE program at Vanderbilt is led by Dan M. Roden, MD,
Digna R Velez Edwards, Ph.D., and Wei-Qi Wei, MD, PhD

Dan Roden is Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, and Biomedical Informatics and Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine. Dr. Roden studies how to use genetic information to personalize treatments. His special interests include studies of why people have variable responses to drug treatment and why some people get abnormalities of heart rhythm and how those abnormalities are best prevented or treated.

Dr. Velez Edwards

Digna Velez-Edwards is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biomedical Informatics, and the Director of the Division of Quantitative Sciences in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Velez Edwards is also the Director of the Women’s Health Research in the Institute of Medicine and Public Health and an investigator of the Vanderbilt Genetics. The focus of Dr. Velez Edward’s research is understanding and identifying genetic risk factors for complex diseases with a specific focus of health disparities and genetic factors related to women’s reproductive and gynecologic health. Much of Dr. Velez Edward’s research uses large clinical databases that link electronic health record (EHR) information to genetic data.

Digna Velez-Edwards is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Biomedical Informatics, and the Director of the Division of Quantitative Sciences in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Velez Edwards is also the Director of the Women’s Health Research in the Institute of Medicine and Public Health and an investigator of the Vanderbilt Genetics. The focus of Dr. Velez Edward’s research is understanding and identifying genetic risk factors for complex diseases with a specific focus of health disparities and genetic factors related to women’s reproductive and gynecologic health. Much of Dr. Velez Edward’s research uses large clinical databases that link electronic health record (EHR) information to genetic data.

Dr. Wei-Qi

Wei-Qi Wei is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Wei is expert in understanding how to use electronic health records (EHRs) to study human diseases. His lab develops new methods to find patients with specific diseases or variable responses to drug treatments. His work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and he has been a national leader in EHR-based networks.

Wei-Qi Wei is Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Wei is expert in understanding how to use electronic health records (EHRs) to study human diseases. His lab develops new methods to find patients with specific diseases or variable responses to drug treatments. His work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and he has been a national leader in EHR-based networks.