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The Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center, a world-leading group of researchers and practitioners studying how to make EHRs work better, with a particular focus on innovative clinical decision support systems, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, has recently initiated a Clinical Informatics Core.

The Department of Biomedical Informatics is hiring an Assistant for our new incoming Chair, Peter Embí, MD, MS, FACP, FACMI, FAMIA, who will assume his new position on January 1, 2022. 

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Department of Biomedical Informatics's (DBMI) monthly newsletter, DBMI Digest, is now available to view. Read the November 2021 issue 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. 

African Americans experience disparities at each phase along the spectrum of chronic liver disease. These health inequities are deeply rooted within the healthcare system and manifest as disparities in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of chronic liver disease. Therefore, it is not surprising that African Americans experience worse liver-related outcomes compared to other racial groups.

Randolph Miller, MD, Emeritus Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, accepted the 2021 Morris F. Collen Award of Excellence at the 2021 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium in San Diego.  Watch the video below in case you missed the award ceremony!

This summer the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a new flagship initiative, the Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD.

In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) featuring Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, MS, Vice Chair for Educational Affairs in DBMI, and other collaborators discussed launching the Women in AMIA Leadership Program. 

Bennett Landman, PhD, Chair of the Department and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received a $2.6 million NIH grant to improve the understanding of structural changes in the brains of people who have Alzheimer’s Disease. The goal is to identify opportunities for early intervention by developing more effective interventional strategies. Dr. Landman leads the four-year project.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH) have developed 30-day predictive models for fatal and non-fatal opioid-related overdose among patients receiving opioid prescriptions in the state. The team applied machine learning techniques to statewide data sources that included details on 2,574 fatal and 8,455 non-fatal opioid-related overdoses occurring within 30 days of an opioid prescription. In all, the data involved just over 3 million patients and more than 71 million prescriptions for controlled substances.

The 2021 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium will take place from October 30 to November 3, 2021, in San Diego.  Below is the speaker schedule for members of the Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC). Contact Elise Russo at elise.russo@vumc.org if you have any questions about VCLIC presentations.