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The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the December 2022 DBMI Digest here. Each DBMI Digest features department & faculty announcements, awards & appointments, educational & HR updates, funding opportunities and more. Each issue also includes a profile of one of our faculty, staff, postdocs and students. 

Vanderbilt’s Colin Walsh, MD, MA, was recently elected to the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) class of 2022.

BioVU, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s biobank, has reached another milestone — deep-freeze storage of more than 300,000 biological samples. Launched in 2007, BioVU is the world’s largest DNA biobank based at a single academic institution.

When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis. Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now report that this trend of decreasing risk persists longer than previously known, for as long as 13 months after COVID. Their report appeared Dec. 14 in JAMA Network Open.

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Clinical Informatics within Perioperative Medicine: Potential Spaces for Innovation"

DBMI Special Seminar: James Cimino, 12/8 at 11:00 am CST THURSDAY, December 8, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Title: "Applying Clinical Informatics to Reinvent the EHR: Moving from Billing Diary to Clinical Assistant"

WEDNESDAY, December 7, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Defining and Redefining Human Disease Across the Phenome"

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Viral Infections, Vaccines and Transmission Risk Assessments: An Outline of Ongoing Studies"

VANDERBILT MS/PHD PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE—WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30 AT 4PM CT