Ashley Spann, MD, MS
Biography
Dr. Ashley Spann is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition with a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed internal medicine training at Duke University Medical Center followed by fellowships in gastroenterology, clinical informatics, and transplant hepatology at Vanderbilt along with a Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics. She is a practicing transplant hepatologist who focuses on management of complications related to end stage liver disease. As a clinical informaticist and physician scientist, she is the Director of Clinical Research Informatics for the Gastroenterology Division, and the Associate Director for Transplant Research Informatics for the Vanderbilt Center for Transplant Science. She has published and presented at both national and international meetings on methodologies and best practices for leveraging informatics techniques and artificial intelligence for the management of patients with chronic liver diseases. Additionally, she held an integral role in the creation of the Epic Systems Hepatology Steering Board to influence national and international EHR standards related to the care of patients with liver disease for which she served as the inaugural chair. Her work has spanned a wide variety of informatics domains, with interests in quality improvement, predictive modeling & artificial intelligence, and targeted implementation of clinical decision support tools for optimizing care delivery for patients with liver disease.
Sessions
8:00 AM
- 1:00 PM
Convention Center - General Session, Hall A
Postgraduate Course, Parts 1–4: Advancing Hepatology—Breakthroughs Shaping Tomorrow's Care (Ticketed)
Lorna Dove, MD, MPH | Chair,
Bernd Schnabl, MD, FAASLD | Chair,
Michael R Lucey, MD, FAASLD | Chair,
Hanna Blaney, MD, MPH | Moderator,
Rotonya Carr, MD, FACP, FAASLD | Moderator,
Brian P Lee, MD MAS | Presenter,
Meena B Bansal, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Stephanie Rutledge, MD, MB BCh, BAO, MRCPI | Presenter,
John P Rice, MD | Presenter,
Patrick Northup, MD, FAASLD | Moderator,
Anahita Rabiee, MD | Moderator,
Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Robert S. Brown, MD, MPH, FAASLD | Presenter,
Virginia Hernandez-Gea, MD, , MD, PhD | Presenter,
Patrick S. Kamath | Presenter,
Norah Terrault, MD, MPH, FAASLD | Moderator,
Scott Biggins, MD, MAS, FAASLD | Moderator,
Cynthia Levy, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Heiner Wedemeyer, MD | Presenter,
Giuseppe Cullaro, MD | Presenter,
Anjana Pillai, MD, FAASLD | Presenter,
Gregory Gores, MD | Moderator,
Veeral Ajmera | Moderator,
Mia Lozada, MD | Presenter,
Ashley Spann, MD, MS | Presenter,
Vincent WS Wong, MD | Presenter,
Kim M Olthoff, MD | Presenter
4:00 PM
- 1:30 PM
Convention Center - Mile High Ballroom 4DEF
Elevating Navigation in Liver Care: Open Access, Artificial Intelligence, and the Evolving Patient-Clinician Partnership
Gina Madison | Presenter,
Oren K Fix, MD, MSc, FAASLD | Presenter,
Taylor Rhoades, BA/BS, MHA | Presenter,
Kerry M. Sivia, B.A. | Moderator,
Kerry M. Sivia, B.A. | Chair,
Beth Lehman | Chair,
Ashley Spann, MD, MS | Moderator,
Michael Charlton, MBBS, FRCP | Presenter
8:00 AM
- 5:30 AM
Convention Center - Bluebird Ballroom 3ABC
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Practice
Mamatha Bhat | Presenter,
Jin Ge, MD, MBA | Presenter,
Douglas A. Simonetto, MD | Presenter,
Marina Serper, MD, MS, FAASLD | Moderator,
Catherine Mezzacappa, MD, PhD, MPH | Moderator,
Catherine Mezzacappa, MD, PhD, MPH | Chair,
Ashley Spann, MD, MS | Chair
