David Foutch

David
Foutch
Statistical Analyst
2525 West End Ave
d.foutch@vumc.org

Erin Whiting

Erin
Whiting
Clinical Trials Associate
2525 West End Ave
erin.g.whiting@vumc.org

Sara Block, MS, Cert Busi

Sara
Block
Project Manager
2525 West End Ave
sara.block@vumc.org

Publications:

 

DBMI Welcomes New Employees

Kevin Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FACMI, DBMI Chair, and Elizabeth Brown, DBMI Chief Business Officer would like to extend their welcome to our newest employees who have joined the department:  Center for Improving the Public's Health through Informatics (CIPHI)

DBMI Digest June 2021 Issue — Now Available!

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

Simon Mallal, MBBS

Simon
Mallal
MBBS
Professor
Department of Medicine
Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
s.mallal@vumc.org

Thomas Reese, PharmD, PhD

Thomas
Reese
Pharm D, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
2525 West End Avenue
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
thomas.reese@vumc.org

Thomas Reese, PharmD, PhD is a board-certified ambulatory care pharmacist and clinical informatician with a strong commitment to patient-oriented research. He was a fellow in the NCI's Multilevel Intervention Training Institute and trained on the National Library of Medicine T15 grant at the University of Utah. Dr. Reese was motivated by clinical practice to understand how clinicians can make better decisions. In this pursuit, he has focused on enhancing the human-computer interaction through interoperable clinical decision support and has led projects on designing and developing integrated information displays for critical care and shared decision-making tools for drug-drug interactions. He is particularly interested in using health information technology to implement evidence-based practice in contextually and theoretically informed ways. Dr. Reese received a career development award from AHRQ to combine clinical decision support with patient reported outcomes to improve treatment for opioid use disorder.

PLoS Genetics: High-Throughput Framework for Genetic Analyses of Adverse Drug RXNs Using EHRs

On June 1, 2021, faculty and staff from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System published a new study titled "High-Throughput Framework for Genetic Analyses of Adverse Drug Reactions Using Electronic Health Records." The study was published in PLoS Genetics.  The researchers presented a high-throughput framework to efficiently identify eligible patients for genetic studies of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using “drug allergy” labels from electronic health records (EHRs).