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 care dashboard 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

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
Presentations and Abstracts
- 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.
Book Chapters
- McCoy AB. “Different Sides of the Story.” Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies Transforming Health Care Through Information: Case Studies, Third Edition. Ed. Einbinder L, Lorenzi NM, Ash JS, Gadd CS, Einbinder J. (In Press)
Works in Progress
- Sastre EA, Denny JC, McCoy JA, McCoy AB, Spickard WA. “Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine: Impact on Students’ Literature Use and Inpatient Clinical Documentation.” (Submitted)
- McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Peterson JF. “Rapid Correction of Clinical Decision Support Failures with Real-Time Surveillance of Provider Responses and Patient Outcomes.” (Submitted)
- McCoy AB, Waitman LR, Gadd CS, Danciu I, Smith JP, Lewis JB, Schildcrout JS, Peterson JF. “Evaluation of a Computerized Provider Order Entry Intervention for Medication Safety Following Acute Kidney Injury.” (Submitted)

Activities
American Medical Informatics Association
- Student Member, 2006 – present
- Annual Symposium Peer Reviewer, 2009

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Student Editorial Board, 2008 – present

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

Daughters of the American Revolution, Pierre de Mandeville Chapter, Mandeville, LA
- Junior Member, 2008 – present
- Webmaster, 2008 – present

World Relief, Nashville, TN
- Volunteer, 9/2009 – present

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