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Travis Osterman, DO, MS, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), Hematology and Oncology and director of Cancer Clinical Informatics at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been appointed to a new role as Associate Vice President for Research Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Osterman will report to Peter Embí, MD, MS, Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation, and Neal Patel, MD, MPH, chief information officer for Health IT at VUMC.

We have two fully-funded postdoctoral fellowship positions opening summer 2023 on the NIH T15 training grant. Please refer any candidates to us, and also consider whether any postdocs you are currently supporting on grant funding might be eligible to move over to this opportunity. 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Developing an Equitable & Reproducible Learning Health System"  

Interest in ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot and text generation tool, is growing among physicians, with nearly 43 percent saying they would consider using it for medical research, according to a recent poll.

Established in 2016, REDCap Day (Research Electronic Data Capture) is an annual event featuring presentations and workshops for the Vanderbilt and Meharry Medical College research community. For the third year in a row, REDCap Day was hosted virtually. There were three morning-long sessions, Feb. 1-3, drawing 415 attendees from a total of 158 departments representing Vanderbilt and Meharry. See the full agenda here.

As the newly named chief medical information officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dara Mize, MD, MS, assumes a critical role for the health system. She will serve on the HealthIT executive team as the primary liaison to clinical leadership across VUMC. Mize will lead the team of clinical directors who have extensive expertise in clinical informatics. These clinical directors work with HealthIT experts to analyze, develop and implement solutions that optimize the use of technology and its impact on caring for VUMC’s patients and families.

WEDNESDAY, February 15, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center (VCLIC) Seminar Title: "Promoting Engagement through Information Sharing: Understanding the Impact of Open Results on Patients and Providers"

WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Implementing Genomic Medicine at the HGSC" Eric Venner, PhD Associate Professor Director of Clinical Informatics Human Genome Sequencing Center Lab Baylor College of Medicine

Martin Were, MD, MS, professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, has been named as the inaugural vice chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

WEDNESDAY, February 1, 2023 12:00 - 1:00 PM CT   Event Type: DBMI Seminar Title: "Update on Clinical Informatics at Vanderbilt"