April Barnado, M.D., M.Sci., is an assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and research director at the Vanderbilt Lupus Center. Her research focuses on developing methods to use EHRs to study outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus. She has developed algorithms that incorporate billing codes, labs and medications, and is working with biomedical informatics collaborators to assess outcomes in the EHR and risk-stratify patients.