DBMI Webinar Highlights: Epic Founder Judy Faulkner Q&A, 2/17/21
Paul Govern
February 25, 2021
Grant Supports Speedy Sorting of Health Records by Phenotype
Paul Govern
February 17, 2021
Wei-Qi Wei , MD, PhD, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics and scientific director of the Precision Phenotyping Core at the Center for Precision Medicine, has been awarded a four-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (grant GM139891) to continue development of high-throughput software for quickly identifying traits of interest, or phenotypes, in electronic health records (EHRs).
Data mart speeds recruitment for COVID research
Paul Govern
February 17, 2021
The arrival last March of the COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee presented challenges for the clinical research enterprise at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Prompt recruitment of patients newly diagnosed with COVID-19 into clinical trials was, and remains, a public health imperative with top-level backing from the federal government.
Jessica Ancker Named Vice Chair for Educational Affairs in DBMI
Mia Garchitorena
February 17, 2021
https://news.vumc.org/2021/02/11/ancker-named-vice-chair-for-educational-affairs-in-the-department-of-biomedical-informatics/
Health informatics expert and educator Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, has joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics as vice chair for Educational Affairs. Ancker comes from Weill Cornell Medical College and Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, where she was an associate professor.
DBMI Staff Recognize MLK Day
Mia Garchitorena
January 18, 2021
In March 1966 at a Medical Committee for Human Rights convention, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane...”
In recognition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, January 18, a few faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) shared their thoughts on how biomedical informatics plays an important role in improving health equity for all.
Building a cohort, the easy way
Paul Govern
January 13, 2021
DBMI Employees Get Vaccinated
Mia Garchitorena
December 23, 2020
The COVID-19 vaccines are here and employees within the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) are signing up!
On Sunday, December 20, 2020, Yaa Kumah-Crystal, MD, Assistant Professor in DBMI and Pediatric Endocrinology, received her first COVID-19 vaccine injection. She described the experience as a "very smooth process."