Stuart T. Weinberg, MD, an innovator and advocate in the field of pediatric informatics with expertise in clinical reminders, web services, personal health records, immunization registries and clinical decision support at the provider, institutional and national levels, died on July 18 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 63.
Dr. Weinberg was passionate about finding and implementing solutions to barriers to the delivery of health care to children. As one of the preeminent pediatric informaticists in the nation, he led work on immunization tracking and registries. At the time of his retirement in January 2022, Dr. Weinberg was actively applying these efforts at Vanderbilt, across the state of Tennessee, and through a national organization seeking to improve the quality of immunization databases. One notable result of these efforts was the successful identification and resubmission of more than 8,000 vaccines from Vanderbilt, including hundreds of COVID-19 vaccine doses, which had been previously rejected due to various errors.
“Over the years, Dr. Weinberg made significant, innovative and sustained contributions to our department, to VUMC and to the fields of informatics and pediatrics. Stuart was a valued friend and colleague to so many of us, and he will be sorely missed,” said Peter Embi, MD, MS, professor and chair of Biomedical Informatics, professor of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at VUMC.
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