Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, August 2010 (Expected)
- Committee: Josh F. Peterson (Chair), Lemuel R. Waitman, Cynthia S. Gadd, Jack Starmer, Bob L. Lobo
- Dissertation Topic: Development and evaluation of a real-time patient surveillance tool with integrated clinical decision support interactions for high-risk medications to improve provider responses to unsafe patient conditions and rapidly correct clinical decision support failures in the clinical domain of acute kidney injury
MS, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, May 2008
- Committee: Lemuel R. Waitman (Chair), Josh F. Peterson, Cynthia S. Gadd
- Thesis: “A System to Monitor and Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury”
BS, Computer Science, Baylor University, May 2006
- Honors Program Scholar with Distinction
- Honors Thesis: “The Semantic Web: An Alternative Approach to Dynamic Data Definition and Integration in Medical Informatics Systems”
Awards and Training
- National Library of Medicine, Biomedical Informatics Training Grant Fellow, Vanderbilt University
- Summer Internship, Information Services, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
- Presidents Scholarship, Baylor University
- John/Ann Iler Computer Science Scholarship, Baylor University
Publications
Original Papers and Peer-Reviewed Proceedings
- McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Gadd CS, Danciu I, Smith JP, Lewis JB, Schildcrout JS, Peterson JF. “A Computerized Provider Order Entry Intervention for Medication Safety During Acute Kidney Injury: A Quality Improvement Report.” Am J Kidney Dis. 2010 Aug 13. PMID: 20709437. [Epub ahead of print]
Posters and Oral Presentations
- McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Peterson JF. “Rapid Correction of Clinical Decision Support Failures with Real-Time Surveillance of Provider Responses and Patient Outcomes.” AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010.
- McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Waitman LR. “Real-Time Surveillance for Rapid Correction of Clinical Decision Support Failures.” Podium presentation at the National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, Portland, OR, 2009.
- Sastre EA, Denny JC, McCoy JA, McCoy AB, Spickard WA. “Teaching Evidence Based Medicine: Effectiveness of a Curriculum to Teach Literature Searching Skills to Third Year Medicine Clerks.” Scientific abstract presentation at The Society of General and Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, 2009.
- McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Gadd CS, Waitman LR. “A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury.” Poster presentation at the National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, Bethesda, MD, 2008.
- McCoy AB, Peterson JF, Gadd CS, Danciu I, Waitman LR. “A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury: Initial Provider Response.” AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008. PMID: 18999252.
University Activities
Biomedical Informatics Graduate Student Association, Vanderbilt University
- President, 2009
- Secretary, 2008
Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University
- Webmaster, 2006 – 2009
- Editorial Committee Co-chair, 2006 – 2009
Editorial Activities
Student Editorial Board
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008 – present
Ad hoc Reviewer
- American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, 2009
Professional Societies
American Medical Informatics Association
- Student Member, 2006 – present
- Annual Symposium Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2009
Graduate Level Coursework
- Foundations of Biomedical Informatics, Foundations of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Methodological Foundations of Biomedical Informatics, Evaluation Methods in Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Information Systems and Databases, Scientific Communication, Healthcare Organization and Management, Data Privacy in Biomedicine, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Experience of Health and Illness, Basic Pharmacology
