Jessica Ancker Speaking at American College of Preventative Medicine's Annual Conference, 5/18

Jessica Ancker, PhD, MPH, FACMI, Vice Chair for Educational Affairs and Professor of Biomedical Informatics, will be speaking at the upcoming American College of Preventative Medicine's annual conference on Tuesday, May 18 at 1:00 pm CT. She will be discussing her project, "Evaluating the Comparative Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Primary Care: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic." 

Siru Liu, PhD

Siru
Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
2525 West End Ave
siru.liu@vumc.org

Siru Liu, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include: optimizing electronic health record features and functions, with an emphasis on clinical decision support, leveraging machine learning and large language model techniques to improve healthcare quality, and analyzing public perceptions using social and behavioral science. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Liu received NIH NLM K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award for her research in optimizing CDS using explainable AI. She is featured as the Postdoc of the Year at Vanderbilt in 2023. She is recognized as a 2022 Google Cloud Research Innovator. She is a fellow in the NCI’s Multilevel Intervention Training Institute, a 2022-23 American Association of University Women International Fellow, and a scholar in the Women in AMIA (WIA) Leadership Program. She developed an explainable machine learning-based clinical decision support tool to predict new onsets of ICU delirium. This project was  a finalist in the 2022 AMIA Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Showcase. She serves as a member of the WIA Committee and other AMIA committees. She also served in the Scientific Program Committee at AMIA 2023 Annual Symposium and as an Area Chair in the Women in Machine Learning Workshop at NeurIPS.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JKXOENIAAAAJ&hl=en

Stuart Weinberg Received Special Achievement Award from American Academy of Pediatrics

Stuart Weinberg, MD, FAAP, FAMIA, Associate Professor in DBMI & Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at Vanderbilt University, received the Special Achievement Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He was honored at the virtual presentation of the District IV Awards of Chapter Excellence & Special Achievement Awards on May 6. 

DBMI Digest May 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 May 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. 

Brad Malin Appointed to CDC’s Board of Scientific Counselors

Bradley Malin, PhD, FACMI, FAIMBE, FIAHSI, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science, has been appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through 2024. 

Juan Zhao, Wei-Qi Wei & Colleagues Analyzed Clinical Notes to Identify COVID Symptoms

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health authorities first had to identify and draw attention to common signs and symptoms of the disease.  On Feb. 25, 2020, with 14 cases having been diagnosed in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) initially went with fever, cough and shortness of breath. This brief official list of coronavirus disease symptoms remained unchanged until mid-April.