Professional Bio
Quinn S. Wells, MD, PharmD, MSCI, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
His research program is directed toward precision medicine for cardiovascular disease, with a special interest in cardiomyopathic phenotypes. The overarching goal of his lab is to understand how patient-specific features, including clinical and genetic factors, contribute to variable disease susceptibility and therapeutic response, and then translate this knowledge to patient-centered, precision care.
A major interest is leveraging the power of the electronic health record (EHR), and in 2014 he created and was appointed director of the Vanderbilt System for EHR-based Research in Cardiovascular Health (V-SERCH). V-SERCH is dedicated to developing for conducting research in the EHR environment, including advanced phenotyping methods incorporating machine learning, disease mechanism, and in vivo data.
Dr. Wells' group has led or contributed to multiple cardiovascular genomics efforts including exome sequencing-based Mendelian disease gene discovery, characterization of phenotypic variability in cardiometabolic disease, and studies of cardiovascular and drug toxicity phenotypes that have identified potentially novel risk loci. Methodologically, his group has developed natural language processing (NLP) tools to extract multiple high-value datatypes including ankle-brachial index (ABI) and echocardiographic parameters.
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Education
PharmD - Samford University, 2002
MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006
Internship - Residency, Internal Medicine - Massachusetts General Hospital, 2009
Fellowship - Co-Chief - CA - Vanderbilt University, 2012
Fellowship - Cardiovascular Medicine - Vanderbilt University, 2013
MSCI - Vanderbilt University, 2013
MS - Human Genetics/Genetic Epidemiology - Vanderbilt University, 2014
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307