Susannah L. Rose, MSSW, MS, PhD

Susannah Rose, PhD, is Core Faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). Her research focuses upon the ethics and impact of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and she is a member of VUMC's AI Governance Committee. Prior to VUMC, Dr. Rose was a Full Professional Staff (faculty) member at Cleveland Clinic, and she served in many leadership roles, including as the Director of Research for the Center of Bioethics, the Director of Research for Safety, Quality and Patient Experience, and the Associate Chief Experience Officer and Director of the Program in AI + Ethics. 

Dr. Rose earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University's Health Policy Program (with a concentration in Ethics) in 2010. Dr. Rose was a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) pre-doctoral research fellow; a Harvard Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellow; a Safra post-doctoral lab fellow; and she was also a pre- and post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) through the Program in Cancer Research Outcomes Training (PCORT). Prior to her doctoral studies, she earned an MS in Bioethics from Union College/Albany Medical Center in 2006, and a MS in Social Work from Columbia University in 1998. Prior to completing her PhD, Dr. Rose was a clinical social worker and researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

She has published two books focused on helping patients and family members cope with cancer, and she has published and presented nationally and internationally at many academic and health technology venues on topics related to technology diffusion in healthcare, artificial intelligence and bioethics. Her publications have appeared in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, such as: JAMA Internal Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM), The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), PLOS One, American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), and The Hastings Center Report. Dr. Rose’s research has been generously funded by multiple sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Harvard University’s Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics, The Greenwall Foundation and others.