Mia A. Levy

Dr. Mia Levy is the Director of Cancer Health Informatics and Strategy for the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Levy received her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from The University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and her Medical Doctorate from Rush University in 2003. She then spent 6 years at Stanford University completing post-graduate training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology while completing her PhD in Biomedical Informatics. She joined the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2009. She is a practicing medical oncologist specializing in the treatment of breast cancer. Dr. Levy’s research interests include biomedical informatics methods to support the continuum of cancer care and cancer research. Her current research projects include informatics methods for 1) clinical decision support for treatment prioritization of molecular subtypes of cancer, 2) longitudinal clinical plan management, 3) data analytics, and 4) learning cancer systems. She is co-inventor of MyCancerGenome.org, a publically available knowledge resource for genome directed cancer treatment selection.