Dr. Davis Austria is an ANCC-certified informatics nurse specialist. He also works as an assistant professor in the MS health informatics program at Xavier University of Louisiana, where he teaches graduate health informatics students and mentors them on the responsible use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice and scholarly work. Dr. Austria serves as principal investigator on a federally funded evaluation of large language models for personalized patient education, an informatics study of how AI-generated patient education materials should be assessed before entering routine use. He also leads The // DoubleSlash Project, a foundation-supported study of AI-mediated mental health support for Black, Brown, and LGBTQ+ young people. His competitive national awards include the NIH AIM-AHEAD CLINAQ Fellowship, the Hopelab HBCU Translational Science Fellowship, the 2026 NIMHD Health Disparities Research Institute Scholar, a Public Voices Fellowship from The OpEd Project, and an NINR Health Disparities Research LRP award. He serves as a regular peer reviewer for the Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Consortium, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, and the Journal of Patient Safety.