Education
MS, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, May 2008
- 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
- 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, Vanderbilt University.
- Summer Internship, Information Services, Ochsner Clinic Foundation.
- President’s Scholarship, Baylor University.
- John/Ann Iler Computer Science Scholarship, Baylor University.

Languages/Technologies
- Assembly, C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, JDBC, JSP, Matlab, Perl, PHP, Prolog, RDF, Scheme, SQL, UNIX Shell, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT.

Graduate Coursework
- Foundations of Biomedical Informatics, Foundations of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Methodological Foundations of Biomedical Informatics, Evaluation Methods in Biomedical Informatics, Data Privacy in Biomedicine, Scientific Communication, Healthcare Organization and Management, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Experience of Health and Illness, Basic Pharmacology.

Activities
American Medical Informatics Association
- Student member, 03/2006 – present.
- Working group: Student.

Graduate Student Council, Vanderbilt University
- Webmaster, 09/2006 – present.
- Editorial committee, co-chair, 09/2006 – present.
- University Religious Affairs committee, member, 07/2007 – present.

Presentations and Publications
- McCoy, Allison B, Peterson, Josh F, Gadd Cynthia S, Waitman, Lemuel R. “A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury.” Poster presentation at The 2008 Annual Biomedical Informatics Training Meeting, Bethesda, MD, July 2008.
- McCoy, Allison B, Peterson, Josh F, Gadd Cynthia S, Danciu, I, Waitman, Lemuel R. “A System to Improve Medication Safety in the Setting of Acute Kidney Injury: Initial Provider Response.” AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008, In Submission.