JOSH PETERSON, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics with research interests in drug safety and e-prescribing. He received his MD through the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1997 and completed his internal medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center. Between 2000-2002, he was a general medicine research fellow under David Bates at Brigham and Women's hospital and completed his MPH degree through Harvard School of Public Health before joining the faculty of Vanderbilt Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics department in 2002. His research focus is to develop and evaluate medication safety systems for patients with complex medical illnesses. Recent projects include the implementation of guided drug dosing for the elderly and a protocol for sedation, analgesia and treatment of delirium among the critically ill. He is the co-PI of an National Library of Medicine RO1 to develop decision support addressing the immediate lab effects of commonly prescribed medications. He is also the current PI of a grant to develop a system of drug dosing that accounts for impaired renal function.