VINCI Director
Department of Veterans Affairs
Scott L. DuVall, PhD, serves as the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI). This resource center offers a secure environment, analytic tools, and a nation-wide view of VA electronic medical record and administrative claims data to more than 8,500 VA-credentialed researchers. Dr. DuVall spearheads the VA office of Research and Development (ORD) initiative to "Put VA Data to Work for Veterans." This endeavor encompasses curating and standardizing data, linking and integrating external data sources, extracting clinical, social, and demographic information using natural language processing, and developing and implementing rigorous methods for reliable real-world evidence. Under his leadership, the VINCI team puts these data to work to enhance Veteran health through precision medicine, pharmacogenomics, and outcomes research to support clinical decision making and advance scientific discovery. Dr. DuVall holds the position of Associate Professor in the University of Utah School of Medicine within the Department of Internal Medicine Division of Epidemiology. He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biomedical Informatics.
