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Director, National Library of Medicine

Peter Joseph Embí, M.D., M.S., is the director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NLM is a leader in biomedical informatics and computational health data science research and the world’s largest biomedical library.

Dr. Embí, an internationally recognized leader in biomedical informatics and health system innovation, brings nearly three decades of clinical, research, academic, and executive leadership experience to NLM. Previously, he serves as a tenured professor of biomedical informatics and internal medicine and the Endowed Director of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where he has also served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Senior Vice-President for Research and Innovation, and, most recently, founding director of the ADVANCE AI Center.

Dr. Embí previously served as President and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute, Vice-President for Learning Health Systems at IU Health, and professor and associate dean at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Earlier, at The Ohio State University, he served as professor and vice-chair of biomedical informatics and as the nation’s first chief research information officer.

Throughout his career, Dr. Embí has advanced the use of health data, evidence, and emerging technologies to improve care, accelerate research, championed the safe and effective adoption of artificial intelligence in medicine, and trained generations of physicians and scientists in biomedical informatics. He is credited as a founder of the field of clinical research informatics and originated the concept of algorithmovigilance, the systematic evaluation and monitoring of AI in health care.

Dr. Embí earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, in Gainesville, and his medical doctorate from the University of South Florida, in Tampa. He completed his internal medicine residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, followed by a fellowship in biomedical informatics there, during which he earned a Master of Science in medical informatics and clinical epidemiology. He subsequently completed fellowship training in rheumatology and immunology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Dr. Embí was the president of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and a president and board chair of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). His honors include election to the National Academy of Medicine and to fellowships in the American College of Physicians, ACMI, and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. In recognition of his leadership and contributions to the field, Dr. Embí received the William W. Stead Award for Thought Leadership from AMIA.

Last Reviewed: September 10, 2026