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Peter J. Embí MD · MS

Advancing biomedical knowledge that is computable, connected, and worthy of trust.

Portrait of Peter J. Embí
Role
Physician-scientist · Innovator · Leader · Biomedical informatics
Current
Founding Director, Vanderbilt ADVANCE AI Center · TRAIN · VAMOS Collaborative
Known for
Clinical research informatics · Algorithmovigilance
Elected
National Academy of Medicine

What he works on

Focus areas
01
Clinical research informatics

A field he helped found

Using biomedical technologies, health data, and informatics methods to make biomedical research more efficient, effective, and rigorous — defining and expanding the foundations and practice of clinical research informatics.

02
Trustworthy AI

Algorithmovigilance

A discipline he named and defined: the systematic, ongoing surveillance of clinical AI before, during and after deployment for safety, effectiveness, and ethical impact — modeled on how medicine monitors drugs.

03
Learning health systems

Closing the loop

Building systems where everyday care and discovery feed each other, so health systems learn and improve continuously rather than episodically.

04
Knowledge infrastructure

Computable, AI-ready knowledge

Turning the health data and biomedical evidence into structured, connected, machine-usable knowledge — governed for integrity so that what AI learns from can be trusted.

Selected recognition

Honors & service
Past President & Board ChairAMIA
Nation’s first Chief Research Information OfficerCRIO
FellowFACP · FACMI · FAMIA · FIAHSI
Continuing series · 2011–2024

The CRI Year-in-Review

For more than a decade, the closing keynote of the AMIA Informatics Summit — a curated tour of the year’s most notable clinical research informatics scholarship, with search strategy, bibliography, and slides for each year.

2024 · 2023 · 2021 · 2018 · 2017 · 2016 · 2015 · 2014 · 2013 · 2012 · 2011

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