Dr Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD MPH

Pediatric Endocrinologist, Clinical Director of HealthIT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Yaa Kumah-Crystal is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Pediatric Endocrinology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Dr. Kumah-Crystal’s research focuses on studying communication and documentation in healthcare and developing strategies to improve workflow and patient care delivery. Dr. Kumah-Crystal is the project lead for the Vanderbilt EHR Voice Assistant (VEVA) initiative to incorporate voice user interfaces into the EHR through Natural language processing. Dr. Kumah-Crystal is the HealhtIT Clinical Director for the VUMC Telehealth taskforce and works to develop and implement strategies to leverage the remote patient care models.