Ashley Spann, MD, MSACI is a clinical informaticist and current transplant hepatology fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She completed internal medicine training at Duke University Medical Center followed by fellowships in both gastroenterology and clinical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Additionally, she has obtained a Master of Science in Applied Clinical Informatics with her master's capstone project dedicated to the automated detection and risk stratification of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). In addition to her transplant hepatology year at Vanderbilt, she also serves the gastroenterology division within the Department of Medicine as the chief gastroenterology fellow for the fellowship program. She has published and presented at national and international meetings on methodologies and best practices for leveraging machine learning within liver disease, and is an award recipient of the 2022 AASLD Advanced/Transplant Hepatology Award. Additionally, she held an integral role in the creation of the Epic Systems Hepatology Subspecialty Steering Board to influence national and international EHR standards related to the care of patients with liver disease, and currently serves the board as the chair. Her work has spanned a wide variety of informatics domains, with specific interests in quality improvement, predictive modeling through machine learning, and targeted implementation of clinical decision support tools for optimization of care delivery and access to care. Upon completion of advanced transplant fellowship training, she aims to leverage her informatics and clinical acumen by investigating the implementation of clinical decision support tools as health system interventions to promote equitable care access and delivery for patients with liver disease.