Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS, FACMI

2017 Precision Medicine Symposium

Discovery and implementation of pharmacogenetics in the Electronic Health Record

Joshua C. Denny, MD, MS, FACMI

Professor, Biomedical Informatics & Medicine
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Precision Medicine
Vice President for Personalized Medicine
Vanderbilt University Medical Center


Dr. Joshua Denny is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, the Director of the Center for Precision Medicine and a Vice President of Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His interest in medical informatics include accurate phenotype identification from electronic health record data and using the electronic medical record to discover genome‐phenome associations to better understand disease and drug response, including the development of the EHR‐based phenomewide association (PheWAS) method. He is PI of nodes in the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network, Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN), and the Implementing Genomics into Practice (IGNITE) network. He is a PI of the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) All of UsSM (AoU) Research Program Direct Volunteer Pilot and the PMI AoU Data and Research Support Center. Dr. Denny remains active in clinical care and in teaching students.